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This should a warning to all over-enthusiastic designers/developers on the Internet. Please stop creating custom scrollbars. Web browsers already provide wonder
by mkmcdonald 15y ago
This should a warning to all over-enthusiastic designers/developers on the Internet. Please stop creating custom scrollbars. Web browsers already provide wonderful scrollbars.
- vyrotek 15y agoI find it interesting that Gmail has custom scroll bars.
- luchs 15y agoBut it's only a visual tweak - they still behave exactly like the normal scrollbars.
- mkmcdonald 15y agoGrooveShark also overrides the default context (right-click) menu. That doesn't mean that it's a good idea.
- cobychapple 15y agoDo you really think discouraging enthusiastic designers and developers from building innovative things that push the boundaries of what's possible with browsers is the way forward? ... for the sake of preserving the status quo of default scrollbars, no less? Come on.
- qq66 15y agoYes. The same way I would discourage an enthusiastic designer from building a car with the brake pedal on the right and the gas on the left. The idea might be good -- most people are right-handed and might have better response times with their right leg when it's straighter. But there's too much inertia in the current convention, and the change can't be made incrementally without creating serious risks.
- mkmcdonald 15y agoIn my years as a Flash developer, I built many custom scrollbars: each more painstaking than the last. Why build something guaranteed to be lower in quality than something else that's been in place for years? Let the professionals innovate.