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Most of the time scrollbars should be designed away. Unless the experience is moving at an undetermined rate to fly past the desired content multiple times, the
by FoomFries 4y ago
Most of the time scrollbars should be designed away. Unless the experience is moving at an undetermined rate to fly past the desired content multiple times, there are better tools. Page keys, scroll wheels (and all of the synonymous gesture experiences), search, collapsing and expanding content, etc.
The bar seems to be more familiarity and less functionality to me.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoThe scroll bar is great. It allows you to exactly where you want to go in a way you no other option permits. To scroll through a document the size of this thread, I need to paw at the scroll wheel 10 times. It's at the same time slow and imprecise. With the scroll bar, it's a single gesture, it's quick and immediate with pixel precision. Neither paging, search or expanding/collapsing elements permit this level of control. They're all much slower, and to make matters worse, often implementation defined. Scroll bars always work the same in every window and every application. Overshooting the mark is a non-issue because scrolling is so fast correction is trivial and immediate. The alternatives also have a big problem with focus-ambiguity. If I page-down in the text box I'm typing this into, it will page the text input, and not the document. Using the scroll bar to adjust the view, there is no such ambiguity, since the mouse cursor uniquely identifies which element I want to scroll.