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Still no bounce scroll on mac makes this dead in the water for me. Folks, the UI look and feel stuff really matters. You can't treat a platform like a second-c

by dilap 8y ago

Still no bounce scroll on mac makes this dead in the water for me. Folks, the UI look and feel stuff really matters. You can't treat a platform like a second-class citizen and hope to gain widespread adoption.

omnimus 8y ago
Interesting. I am ux designer and i never thought people care about this or even realize there is difference. I mean actually quite opposite lot of people i know were confused from the movements first time this feature landed in safari. Anyway surely this is not a showstopper. I mean it is not functional in any way.
- dilap 8y ago
  Scrollbars that auto-hide and bounce scrolling are standard behavior for any macOS application. Apps that don't do this both look and feel weird. Maybe not a showstopper if Firefox were offering unavailable-anywhere-else behavior, but it's completely natural and predicable that users will migrate to one of the other two major browsers that care enough to make themselves fit in w/ the system they are running on.
  - omnimus 8y ago
    Well Firefox is actually offering "unavailable-anywhere-else behavior" - it's free software that does not require you to log in and send private browsing data to google. This is the case for anyone having google account - which is almost everyone.
    - dilap 8y ago
      "Hey, we respect privacy better, no need to make the UX top-notch!" ^^^ This attitude sucks! UX is everything if you want your software to be used by the masses.
      - omnimus 8y ago
        Omg i just now realized you are just trolling me. Nice one.
        dilap 8y ago
        not trolling! 100% sincere. would love to see firefox once again care about ux, and reverse its downward trend in popularity.
Sohcahtoa82 8y ago
IMO, bounce scrolling should be a browser option, not a CSS option chosen by the web dev. I despise it and would get frustrated at web sites that use it.
dredmorbius 8y ago
What is bounce scroll?
- dilap 8y ago
  (Also called rubber-band scroll or elastic-scrolling) macOS feature adopted from iOS where when you try to scroll past the end of a document, rather than just doing nothing, it sort of stretches/bounces/rubber-bands past the bounds and then snaps back. It's nice because (1) it feels believable and physical (2) it gives you feedback that you really are at the end of the document, rather than just the computer lagging.
  - dredmorbius 8y ago
    Ah, TIL there's a name for that. Yes, the feedback is useful, though I'd never really realised that until now. Thanks.

by dilap 8y ago

omnimus 8y ago

Interesting. I am ux designer and i never thought people care about this or even realize there is difference. I mean actually quite opposite lot of people i know were confused from the movements first time this feature landed in safari. Anyway surely this is not a showstopper. I mean it is not functional in any way.

dilap 8y ago
Scrollbars that auto-hide and bounce scrolling are standard behavior for any macOS application. Apps that don't do this both look and feel weird. Maybe not a showstopper if Firefox were offering unavailable-anywhere-else behavior, but it's completely natural and predicable that users will migrate to one of the other two major browsers that care enough to make themselves fit in w/ the system they are running on.
- omnimus 8y ago
  Well Firefox is actually offering "unavailable-anywhere-else behavior" - it's free software that does not require you to log in and send private browsing data to google. This is the case for anyone having google account - which is almost everyone.
  - dilap 8y ago
    "Hey, we respect privacy better, no need to make the UX top-notch!" ^^^ This attitude sucks! UX is everything if you want your software to be used by the masses.
    - omnimus 8y ago
      Omg i just now realized you are just trolling me. Nice one.
      - dilap 8y ago
        not trolling! 100% sincere. would love to see firefox once again care about ux, and reverse its downward trend in popularity.

Sohcahtoa82 8y ago

IMO, bounce scrolling should be a browser option, not a CSS option chosen by the web dev. I despise it and would get frustrated at web sites that use it.

dredmorbius 8y ago

What is bounce scroll?

dilap 8y ago
(Also called rubber-band scroll or elastic-scrolling) macOS feature adopted from iOS where when you try to scroll past the end of a document, rather than just doing nothing, it sort of stretches/bounces/rubber-bands past the bounds and then snaps back. It's nice because (1) it feels believable and physical (2) it gives you feedback that you really are at the end of the document, rather than just the computer lagging.
- dredmorbius 8y ago
  Ah, TIL there's a name for that. Yes, the feedback is useful, though I'd never really realised that until now. Thanks.