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Scrolling should just move a fixed size view up and down a fixed sized page. Why on earth must everyone complicate it so much?

• marssaxman 8mo ago
  I don't understand why browsers ever let designers fuck up the scrolling mechanism in the first place. Why is that even possible?
  • ryandrake 8mo ago
    Browsers have handed way too much control to web developers. "The web as a software SDK" was a terrible idea.
    • mghackerlady 8mo ago
      The web should be a method of delivering documents exclusively, and be limited to the kinds of things you can do with other computerized documents (the basics, but also Audio, Video, Animations, hyperlinking, etc.)
      • wtallis 8mo ago
        I'd be okay with locking these heavily-abused features behind a "web app mode" that the user has to enable on a per-site basis. It should include a restriction forcing all content to come from the same origin, so that the browser in that mode won't make it easy for web apps to include third-party tracking or advertising.
    • bigstrat2003 8mo ago
      My biggest annoyance: letting scripts control the history. I can imagine that someone thought "oh it'll be nice, you can use it for pages of an app". But the reality is that people are not nice and it gets used maliciously all the damn time. It should not be allowed.