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The only thing more annoying than carousels are websites that hijack mouse wheel to do their own (always) poorly implemented scrolling.
by hexomancer 4y ago
The only thing more annoying than carousels are websites that hijack mouse wheel to do their own (always) poorly implemented scrolling.
- yccs27 4y agoI think Apple started that trend with their product pages, and now web designers try to copy that and end up making it even worse.
- valenaut 4y agoThe only time I've actually liked this pattern is in some New York Times stories. They do it very well. Example: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/world/asia/india-pollution-inequality.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/world/asia/in...
- adamredwoods 4y agoIs there a non-paywalled example?
- lobocinza 4y ago"Bypass Paywalls" browser extension
- RegW 4y ago> ... websites that hijack mouse wheel ... half way down the page - to suddenly reduce the size of the page content.
- notacoward 4y agoThis one drives me nuts. So many sites abruptly stop doing something I want (scrolling) to do something I don't (resizing a map or other image), so then I have to undo two kinds of designer brain damage instead of just one.