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I actually think he's making a big deal out of nothing on this one. If you have a site that gets long, it would be smart to create some kind of system for jumpi
by dpcan 7y ago
I actually think he's making a big deal out of nothing on this one. If you have a site that gets long, it would be smart to create some kind of system for jumping between sections, or scrolling up a great deal. Like Google Docs does when editing a long document. I can jump between bookmarks and pages with the "knob" on the right. But most websites don't need anything like this. It should be the job of the developer of the site to realize their site DOES need this, and implement some kind of smart solution.
- city41 7y agoI’d argue scroll bars are often a “good enough” solution that you get for free and require very little maintenance.
- theandrewbailey 7y agoIn the past, navigation was the software's job, not the document's job to hack something in. You could expect navigation to be handled in a consistent way, and you didn't have to relearn something because you are reading a different site.
- MisterBastahrd 7y agoI know it sounds crazy, but what if there were an ubiquitous solution that everyone was already familiar with and had used many times in the past, a solution that required little thought from developers and behaved consistently everywhere? Something like... well, a scroll bar, at least before devs started being cute and hiding them for the sole purpose of aesthetics.
- dredmorbius 7y agoThat's crazy talk!
- dpcan 7y agoBecause a scroll bar taking up real estate on the right side of a phone screen that is hard to touch because it's so thin is silly. A knob on the right that's easily grabbed and barely covers anything is better.