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Why are we messing with things I already knew? You're the website, you deliver me content, I decide what to do with it. Don't take really long ways around to f
by bdg 15y ago
Why are we messing with things I already knew?
You're the website, you deliver me content, I decide what to do with it. Don't take really long ways around to force me to do things your way, use semantic HTML and CSS, use the default scroll bars, let me pick a user-agent that makes scroll-bars the way I want. I don't want to use OSX Lion scroll bars because I think mac's are lame, but now I have no choice.
- jamesflorentino 15y agoThe custom scrollbar is actually meant for scrollable div layers. (e.g. logs for chat-based applications). I needed a way to get rid of the thick native scrollbar skin for a javascript-dev project to match the overall design. Hence, why I came up with it.
- throwaway22019 15y agoSo you came up with a solution that even on Lion doesn't use current scrollbar style (always visible mouse one/thin trackpad one), doesn't use kinetic scrolling if it's enabled, doesn't obey scroll speed preferences and doesn't even scroll in the same direction as the rest of things? That's just marvelous; I hope I'll never have to use your software.
- mweibel 15y agoMatching the overall design is not an excuse for doing such a thing. It changes the default behaviour & design of standard scrollbars and this is a serious design flaw.
- marknutter 15y agoI'm really glad your wrote this. It's just the solution I'm looking for. Uber-geeks will always complain about custom scroll bars, but the rest of society appreciates the clean design.
- mweibel 15y agoThat's not about uber-geeks. It's simply about usability. And the rest of the society will not complain about the failing usability but it will notice it.