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...and hijacking scroll behavior. Please stop that and just use the defaults, like everyone expects. I'm tired of getting to a site and having it scroll pages a

by cronix 7y ago

...and hijacking scroll behavior. Please stop that and just use the defaults, like everyone expects. I'm tired of getting to a site and having it scroll pages at a time when it should just scroll a few lines. And then trying to get back to the correct spot is a pain. Who does this stuff and why do you think it's necessary? What problem do you think you are solving by doing this? I just hit the back button. I'm not going to struggle and fight the browser to digest whatever it is you thought was important enough to print, because you've made it unnecessarily difficult and complicated to consume.

jacksam 7y ago
I think this is the bigger issue compared to the design of the scrollbar. Personally I don’t really mind if the scrollbar disappears like it does on my Macbook. But when the website hijacks the scroll so I can’t use any gestures to go back or forward, that really pisses me off. The usual culprit is some crappy Themeforest WordPress Theme the website is using.
dredmorbius 7y ago
NLM's remapping of vertical to horizontal scrolling is absolutely maddening. When I indicate an up/down movement on a page, I expect the page to move top-to-bottom. And absolutely NOT left-to-right. I instantly switch to the "classic" view, though disabling JS on the site has the added benefit of "breaking" the dysfunctional mode. Any other remapping of scroll behaviour is also annoying as flipping heck. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4669363/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4669363/
hnick 7y ago
Maybe I'm a unique and strange person but my preferred scroll behaviour when reading a website is to middle click and move the mouse. Speed varies as the mouse moves so if you move just a bit you can get the page to auto-scroll at your perfect reading speed. Of course, it's broken in a lot of sites, because many front end devs apparently don't know or care that this exists.

by cronix 7y ago

jacksam 7y ago

I think this is the bigger issue compared to the design of the scrollbar. Personally I don’t really mind if the scrollbar disappears like it does on my Macbook. But when the website hijacks the scroll so I can’t use any gestures to go back or forward, that really pisses me off. The usual culprit is some crappy Themeforest WordPress Theme the website is using.

dredmorbius 7y ago

NLM's remapping of vertical to horizontal scrolling is absolutely maddening. When I indicate an up/down movement on a page, I expect the page to move top-to-bottom. And absolutely NOT left-to-right. I instantly switch to the "classic" view, though disabling JS on the site has the added benefit of "breaking" the dysfunctional mode. Any other remapping of scroll behaviour is also annoying as flipping heck. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4669363/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4669363/

hnick 7y ago

Maybe I'm a unique and strange person but my preferred scroll behaviour when reading a website is to middle click and move the mouse. Speed varies as the mouse moves so if you move just a bit you can get the page to auto-scroll at your perfect reading speed. Of course, it's broken in a lot of sites, because many front end devs apparently don't know or care that this exists.