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I'm really annoyed by those sites that insist on having a non-removable top bar overlaying the text. Because they break the page-down key. You page down, but pa

• lukifer 13y ago
  Bootstrap helped popularize this pattern, and I don't think it's been good for the web. It also steals valuable screen real estate for tiny laptops, like the 11" Air.
• jakub_g 13y ago
  When you connect this with the usage of Zoom Text Only option in Firefox, due to zoom (bigger text) + an overflow (if divs do not fit any longer within the parent width) the top bar can take substantial part of the screen on desktop also. Quite annoying indeed.
• midas 13y ago
  When websites do it well I love it! They can pick the most important links for me and put them in the nav so they're always available without me having to scroll around.
• chrismorgan 13y ago
  If you use Firefox, since about version 17 or 18 it adjusts the amount that Page Down/Page Up/Space/Shift+Space scroll by if it detects a fixed header. It doesn't always work (non-full-width headers it doesn't typically catch) but it's absolutely marvellous to have. It's the funny thing about floating navigation; usability testing and A/B testing show that it's good for conversion/engagement/whatnot, but until Firefox fixed it I absolutely hated the pattern for this very reason.