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Why do sites insist on doing stupid things with scrolling? The mouse scroll wheel doesn't work, there's no scrollbar, page up/down don't work, arrow keys don't

Why do sites insist on doing stupid things with scrolling? The mouse scroll wheel doesn't work, there's no scrollbar, page up/down don't work, arrow keys don't work. WTF? Just use the regular built-in scrolling. I didn't visit the website to spend 15 minutes figuring out how to navigate it.

alanbernstein 10y ago
All of those things work perfectly normally for me.
kazinator 10y ago
> Why do sites insist on doing stupid things with scrolling? One possible reason is: testing only smartphones and tablets. I don't see that problem with this site, though. There is a scroll bar and the wheel works for me (FireFox 48.0.1). I allowed JavaScript from mathajax.com and from the site itself (fermatslibrary.com), but not Google Analytics. However, a modal dialog box pops up about subscribing to the newsletter. Scrolling doesn't work until it is dismissed. HYPOTHESIS: if that dialog is somehow mispositioned off-screen, it will look like scrolling is busted. For me, that dialog pops up after the passage of some number of seconds after a full reload of the page. It tracks the position of the lower right corner of the browser as I resize; I can't get that dialog to go off-screen unless I shrink the window ridiculously so it goes above the top edge or past the left edge.
- Strilanc 10y ago
  > a modal dialog box pops up about subscribing to the newsletter I was wondering why I had the site marked as untrusted to execute javascript. That answers that.
- jlarocco 10y ago
  Ah, I feel silly now, it looks like I caused this. At some point I must have added an adblock rule to block the subscribe dialog on fermatslibrary.com, but somehow missed the disable scrolling part. I just clicked the link again and was able to scroll for a few seconds before it stopped. I toggled ad-block and the subscribe box became visible. Earlier, I opened the page in a new tab and didn't get to it for a while, so when I switched over to read it, the subscribe box had already disabled scrolling.
Terr_ 10y ago
It works fine for me -- I have Javascript disabled by default :P

alanbernstein 10y ago

All of those things work perfectly normally for me.

kazinator 10y ago

> Why do sites insist on doing stupid things with scrolling? One possible reason is: testing only smartphones and tablets. I don't see that problem with this site, though. There is a scroll bar and the wheel works for me (FireFox 48.0.1). I allowed JavaScript from mathajax.com and from the site itself (fermatslibrary.com), but not Google Analytics. However, a modal dialog box pops up about subscribing to the newsletter. Scrolling doesn't work until it is dismissed. HYPOTHESIS: if that dialog is somehow mispositioned off-screen, it will look like scrolling is busted. For me, that dialog pops up after the passage of some number of seconds after a full reload of the page. It tracks the position of the lower right corner of the browser as I resize; I can't get that dialog to go off-screen unless I shrink the window ridiculously so it goes above the top edge or past the left edge.

Strilanc 10y ago
> a modal dialog box pops up about subscribing to the newsletter I was wondering why I had the site marked as untrusted to execute javascript. That answers that.
jlarocco 10y ago
Ah, I feel silly now, it looks like I caused this. At some point I must have added an adblock rule to block the subscribe dialog on fermatslibrary.com, but somehow missed the disable scrolling part. I just clicked the link again and was able to scroll for a few seconds before it stopped. I toggled ad-block and the subscribe box became visible. Earlier, I opened the page in a new tab and didn't get to it for a while, so when I switched over to read it, the subscribe box had already disabled scrolling.

Terr_ 10y ago

It works fine for me -- I have Javascript disabled by default :P