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On regular websites, if done poorly custom scrollbars are not only useless but a major distraction. I like the idea when working on web apps, though. Most nativ
by rglover 16y ago
On regular websites, if done poorly custom scrollbars are not only useless but a major distraction. I like the idea when working on web apps, though. Most native apps take on a custom style (e.g. iTunes), and it's nice to mimic this and give the user a sense of working within a native application. Guess it's just preference though.
- pavlov 16y agoOn Mac OS X, it seems that 99% of apps don't mess with the scrollbars (except for dark HUD-style windows and a other rare special cases where the default look would be too out of place). iTunes is the lone offender. Those weird flat scrollbars were introduced a couple of years ago -- maybe iTunes 7.0. Perhaps Apple's justification for the change was that they wanted iTunes to look the same on both Mac and Windows. (Edit -- it worth mentioning that 10.7 Lion will introduce iOS-style scrollbars to the Mac, so we can probably look forward to more freeform scrolling experimentation by app developers as well.)