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I really love the progress bar on the top of the page. I wish more long form articles were like that.
by clarkm 12y ago
I really love the progress bar on the top of the page. I wish more long form articles were like that.
- debaserab2 12y agoLucky for you, it's baked in to every modern web browser in existence - just look to the right for a built in progress bar that even lets you click to a particular section of the article based on it's progress.
- r00fus 12y agoUnluckily for most mobile viewers (definitely on iOS), scrollbars aren't persistent (makes sense when you have limited real-estate). A sign of the times - mobile and desktop client parity in web readership?
- clarkm 12y agoI know it's hard to resist making snarky comments, but you jumped on it a bit too early, and I'm afraid you missed the point. My comment was specifically about It's about the fact that the bar is at the top of the page. It's a completely different user experience than the standard scroll bar.
- debaserab2 12y agoHow is it a completely different user experience?
- irq 12y agoThe other reason the traditional scrollbar is useless for gauging progress is one never knows how many pages of comments are at the bottom of the article you're reading. The article could be one page long but have 30 pages of comments and you just don't know until you get to the end. In this case, sacbee doesn't seem to have any comments at all (good for them!) but I don't read them often enough to have that fact memorized.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoFirst thing I did was inspect element to get rid of it. I have little enough vertical screen real estate. I don't need random websites throwing up redundant (and poor) approximations to ubiquitous UI elements.