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Nice. This may be my pet peeve on the modern internet. Nearly EVERY site has a dick bar, and the reason I care is it breaks scrolling with spacebar, which is TH
by xp84 2y ago
Nice. This may be my pet peeve on the modern internet. Nearly EVERY site has a dick bar, and the reason I care is it breaks scrolling with spacebar, which is THE most comfortable way to read long content, it scrolls you a screen at a time. But a dickbar obscures the first 1 to…10? lines of the content, so you have to scroll back up. The only thing worse than the dickbar is the dickbar that appears and disappears depending on last direction scrolled, so that each move of the scrolling mechanism changes the viewport size. A pox on them all.
- nayuki 2y ago> Nearly EVERY site has a dick bar, and the reason I care is that when reading on my laptop screen, it takes up valuable vertical space on a small display that is in landscape mode. I want to use my screen's real estate to read the freaking content, not look at your stupid branding bar. And I don't need any on-page assistance to jump back to the top of the page and/or find the navigation. I have a "Home" key on my keyboard and use it frequently.
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoTBF, many people don't have that Home key. I agree with you, though - there should be a better solution. At the very least, just have an optional "Top of page" toolbar button in your browser.
- P-Nuts 2y agoCtrl+↑
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoThat's one option. On macOS, it's fn + Left. On Android, I'm not sure there's anything.
- carlosjobim 2y agoOn iPhone: Touch the top bar On MacOS: Click the top part of the scroll bar
- robertoandred 2y agoNote to web devs: use scroll-padding to fix this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scroll-padding https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scroll-padd...
- dredmorbius 2y agoNo. Just kill the fucking dickbar.
- cwillu 2y agoNAK; stop doing stupid shit and then you don't need browser support to fix the things you break on a case-by-case basis.
- resonious 2y agoDick bar often breaks hash links as well. You click a link that scrolls you to a section, but you can't see the first few lines of it.
- Doctor_Fegg 2y agoIIRC (as a fellow spacebar aficionado) position:fixed breaks spacebar scrolling but position:sticky generally doesn’t.
- philsnow 2y agoI often scroll with the space bar instead of more modern contrivances like arrow keys, scroll wheels, trackpoints, or trackpads. Sites with these header bars always seem to scroll the entire viewport y size instead of (y - bar_height), so after I hit space I have to up-arrow some number of times to see the next line of text that should be visible but is hidden under the bar.