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It's funny you say that because I've been considering doing exactly the opposite: Adding a curated user style sheet for common websites which adds floating head

It's funny you say that because I've been considering doing exactly the opposite: Adding a curated user style sheet for common websites which adds floating headers/sticky scroll/contextual scroll/semantic scroll/whatever you call it. Like this one for HN[1] (also mine), but everywhere. I'd honestly be curious why you dislike floating headers? Especially for navigation, I think it is preferable. I regularly make use of it, like here [2] (also mine, sorry for all of that) [1] https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/427429-hacker-news-contextual-comments-sticky-tree https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/427429-hacker-news-context... [2] https://phil294.github.io/AHK_X11/ https://phil294.github.io/AHK_X11/

cwillu 4y ago
I _never_ have any use for “tools” while I'm reading something. I do have a use for seeing a couple more lines of text at the top and bottom of the screen. Edit: I actually lied, I have often wished I could get to ublock's “select element” control a little easier. Because I so often have to kill obnoxious floating elements :D
- 57FkMytWjyFu 4y ago
  You may find this useful, although you have to tap it for each visit. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-sticky/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-sticky/
philsnow 4y ago
My two complaints about floating headers / footers: - they grow over time, so at first 90% of the vertical space is for content but later it becomes closer to 70% or worse. - they hide the content that's underneath them, but hitting 'space' (or pgdn) still scrolls a screen's worth of content scrolls, say, 1000 vertical pixels even though you can only see 900-700 pixels' worth of content at a time. I'm forced to either scroll with a mouse wheel, trackpad, etc, or else pgdn and then up-arrow a couple times. I don't know shit about fuck re: modern web design (I first learned from an ORielly book titled "Dynamic HTML / the definitive reference (2nd edition)"). iframes do the right thing where pgdn scrolls one iframe-height worth of content, but I guess you'd have to have your header/footer "contain" the content as an iframe, and that's weird?

cwillu 4y ago

I _never_ have any use for “tools” while I'm reading something. I do have a use for seeing a couple more lines of text at the top and bottom of the screen. Edit: I actually lied, I have often wished I could get to ublock's “select element” control a little easier. Because I so often have to kill obnoxious floating elements :D

57FkMytWjyFu 4y ago
You may find this useful, although you have to tap it for each visit. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-sticky/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-sticky/

philsnow 4y ago

My two complaints about floating headers / footers: - they grow over time, so at first 90% of the vertical space is for content but later it becomes closer to 70% or worse. - they hide the content that's underneath them, but hitting 'space' (or pgdn) still scrolls a screen's worth of content scrolls, say, 1000 vertical pixels even though you can only see 900-700 pixels' worth of content at a time. I'm forced to either scroll with a mouse wheel, trackpad, etc, or else pgdn and then up-arrow a couple times. I don't know shit about fuck re: modern web design (I first learned from an ORielly book titled "Dynamic HTML / the definitive reference (2nd edition)"). iframes do the right thing where pgdn scrolls one iframe-height worth of content, but I guess you'd have to have your header/footer "contain" the content as an iframe, and that's weird?