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Not sure why the need to invent a new word for this. Scroll "twitch" would have been a perfectly acceptable choice I would think. ie. Twitchy scrolling.
by werdnapk 12y ago
Not sure why the need to invent a new word for this. Scroll "twitch" would have been a perfectly acceptable choice I would think. ie. Twitchy scrolling.
- sehr 12y agoIt's not a new word, it's been around for decades
- codexon 12y agoJank is a slang word. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10303816/Derp-YOLO-and-Jank-make-it-in-to-new-dictionary.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10303816/Derp-YOLO-and-Ja... They seemed to not know about proper terminology such as jitter.
- sehr 12y agoI've never heard jitter used in client side web development, so it may just be custom in this domain. That being said, claiming either one as proper seems a bit misguided
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- kcbanner 12y agojank is the accepted industry term for scrolling which is jerky, or happens out of sync with the initiating user input