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This highlights the bigger issue of web developers and designers only working on the latest and greatest hardware with the fastest performance and the best user
by spideymans 6y ago
This highlights the bigger issue of web developers and designers only working on the latest and greatest hardware with the fastest performance and the best user experience. Their users may not have access to the same hardware, while developers and designers are totally blind to how their software might perform on anything but a recent model MacBook Pro or XPS.
- gspr 6y agoIn this case I'd say it highlights another problem too: web developers thinking it is their prerogative to control how their users scroll.
- Spivak 6y agoThis is just a subset of the debate surrounding the web as documents, applications, and media. Apps and media can do whatever to the scrolling since it just an implementation detail to achieve some effect like slide transitions. Documents shouldn’t touch it and leave it up to the client.
- madeofpalk 6y ago"to be fair" - on Apple's site they arent controlling how the user's scroll. They aren't scroll hijacking, they're just progressing video playback based on the native scroll position. It's still janky (and buggy?) as hell on Chrome on Windows with a mouse with a scroll wheel.
- snazz 6y agoThose kinds of pages are janky on macOS with a low-sensitivity scroll wheel too. They're really satisfying on touchscreens and touchpads; I wonder if it's possible to make them smooth on devices with junky mice without implementing the equally-annoying smooth scroll hijacking that is popular on some sites.
- madeofpalk 6y agoI guess you would just have to "smooth" out the animations also.
- saagarjha 6y agoYeah, and that frequently feels very wrong :(
- qppo 6y agoShoutout to the folks over at Axosoft who clearly have never even looked at gitkraken on a 1080p monitor, ever.