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Please don't hijack scroll on web pages.

• adam12 11y ago
  The scrolling seems fine to me.
  • davydka 11y ago
    There's something non-standard going on with it for me. It snaps to certain sections at the bottom and I can't swipe to navigate back and forth like I usually do.
  • tpaksoy 11y ago
    exizt88 is correct. I can't swipe to go back a page. And if I swipe up, the page seems to want to continue scrolling at the same speed, it feels different and not fluent.
  • cstrahan 11y ago
    They're using kinetic/smooth scrolling, which is included in theme they're using from Okler. If you look in the JS, you'll see: Plugin Name: smoothScroll for jQuery. Written by: Okler Themes - (http://www.okler.net) And here's a forum where a customer asks to disable it: http://www.okler.net/forums/topic/disable-scrolling-effect/ http://www.okler.net/forums/topic/disable-scrolling-effect/ Another offender: https://www.astralgameservers.com/ https://www.astralgameservers.com/ Inertial/kinetic scrolling is incredibly frustrating when implemented in JS. On my Mac, sure, if I swipe my fingers and let go, I expect the OS to emulate a free-spinning scroll wheel. But when it's emulated in JS, there's no way for the code to know whether I lifted my fingers, so it defaults to making the page skid around uncontrollably, when I intend to quickly swipe - while keeping my fingers down at the end - to go to a precise offset in the page. It's visually a cute a effect, but I have no idea how anyone thinks that it makes for anything other than an utterly infuriating user experience.
  • speeder 11y ago
    I am using Windows 8, chrome, Microsoft mouse with scrollwheel. The scrolling is absolutely broken, it is jumping around all over the place, and made the page impossible to read.
• marssaxman 11y ago
  More importantly, please don't build web browsers that give nitwit web developers the option of hijacking scroll (or control keys!!) in the first place.
  • jplur 11y ago
    I use the web to build applications and very much need to set scroll points and capture key input thank you very much.
    • marssaxman 11y ago
      I'd really rather you didn't do that, since it makes using the web as the web so annoying. I think we really need to fork the web and let "browsers" specialize in one direction while the "client/server application platforms" go another.
• kuschku 11y ago
  I’m using the page on Firefox, with a laptop (with touchpad) and it works perfectly normal – now I’m interested what I’m missing? What’s it like?
  • awqrre 11y ago
    I'm using Firefox 44.0.2 on Linux with a mouse and it appears to be fine too...