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The web is broken. Someone's website wouldn't scroll (I don't remember the details, and I don't think I wanted to find out --- maybe it was overflow: hidden, bu

The web is broken. Someone's website wouldn't scroll (I don't remember the details, and I don't think I wanted to find out --- maybe it was overflow: hidden, but it could've been something else), and the only way I could figure out to deal with it was to open up the devtools responsive design mode and pretend the screen was bigger than it was so that the full page could show, and then use the browser's scrollbar from within that view.

elliekelly 5y ago
I’m one of the few weirdos who actually seeks out and reads the ToS & privacy policy posted on sites I visit and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run into a site with infinite scrolling and a footer (with all the “important” legal stuff) that a user will never see but for a fleeting moment. A feature or a bug? I’m never quite sure.
- valyagolev 5y ago
  In the footer, there's also sometimes the language picker, the "desktop version" link (often acting as a button with same urls, so you can't just save it), and the dev docs links. There's a site where I have to specifically open a page that is not infinite to make sure I enabled the desktop mode before going back to whatever I actually came to do
onion2k 5y ago
The web is broken. When an app on your computer or phone doesn't work well do you say Windows or iOS is broken, or do you say the app is broken? A broken website doesn't mean the web is broken.
- throwaway77770 5y ago
  The grain of the web is so that it's much easier to write something broken than something that works. That's true of all development, granted, but doubly so the web, so yep... the web is broken.
  - onion2k 5y ago
    Most websites work quite well.
    - ComputerGuru 5y ago
      That was mostly true before client side rendering.
- toomanyducks 5y ago
  > When an app on your computer or phone doesn't work well do you say Windows or iOS is broken Yes. All the time. A good platform supports that which builds upon it.

elliekelly 5y ago

I’m one of the few weirdos who actually seeks out and reads the ToS & privacy policy posted on sites I visit and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run into a site with infinite scrolling and a footer (with all the “important” legal stuff) that a user will never see but for a fleeting moment. A feature or a bug? I’m never quite sure.

valyagolev 5y ago
In the footer, there's also sometimes the language picker, the "desktop version" link (often acting as a button with same urls, so you can't just save it), and the dev docs links. There's a site where I have to specifically open a page that is not infinite to make sure I enabled the desktop mode before going back to whatever I actually came to do

onion2k 5y ago

The web is broken. When an app on your computer or phone doesn't work well do you say Windows or iOS is broken, or do you say the app is broken? A broken website doesn't mean the web is broken.

throwaway77770 5y ago
The grain of the web is so that it's much easier to write something broken than something that works. That's true of all development, granted, but doubly so the web, so yep... the web is broken.
- onion2k 5y ago
  Most websites work quite well.
  - ComputerGuru 5y ago
    That was mostly true before client side rendering.
toomanyducks 5y ago
> When an app on your computer or phone doesn't work well do you say Windows or iOS is broken Yes. All the time. A good platform supports that which builds upon it.