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Visible scrollbars are unnecessary with proper design. Eg. Reading the Twitter thread I intuitively know that I can scroll to see more because the last line of
by josho 6y ago
Visible scrollbars are unnecessary with proper design.
Eg. Reading the Twitter thread I intuitively know that I can scroll to see more because the last line of text is partially cut off by the edge of the screen. This signals to my brain that there is more, and I can scroll.
Whereas as I type in this text box as I reply the box is sized perfectly to 6 lines of text and I don’t have the same visual accordance informing me that content exists outside the viewport.
- jpalomaki 6y agoScrollbar also tells how much hidden content there is.
- xtracto 6y agoExactly, I find it funny how now I have to download additional 1MB of Javascript for a webpage to show me the place in the document I am at the moment.
- lucasmullens 6y agoIt's a lot of work to get the elements on the page to always space themselves such that one element is cut off. I think it's pretty impressive if a site bothers with that, but it's hard to call that "proper design".
- Hammershaft 6y agoThis is only true if your particular mix of vertical resolution, aspect ratio, zoom, and content visibly show a cut off element. Invisible scrollbars should not be the default.