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Websites already implement their own scroll bars - Gmail, Google Spreadsheets, etc. It would be nice if instead of having to reimplement _everything_ about the

Websites already implement their own scroll bars - Gmail, Google Spreadsheets, etc. It would be nice if instead of having to reimplement _everything_ about the scrollbar to just add a feature or two, the native one was customizable. Because frankly, people are going to change it, so might as well make things less buggy.

bluthru 12y ago
>Websites already implement their own scroll bars - Gmail, Google Spreadsheets, etc. As an OS X user who enjoys not seeing scrollbars, I find Google's use of them downright intrusive.
- userbinator 12y ago
  This is a good point - users are accustomed to the scrollbar style of the system they're using (which is often an adjustable preference), so it makes sense for scrollbars in web apps to follow what the OS does. While my scrollbar preferences are very different from yours (I prefer ones that are always-visible, large and easy-to-grab), I agree that the web apps you use should conform to your UI preferences, and not the other way around.
esrauch 12y ago
Gmail uses webkit scrollbar styling, they don't reimplement scrollbars from scratch. If you go to gmail in Firefox it uses the stock scrollbars, which is really a major advantage to Firefox in my mind. It's kind of like when Chrome stopped supporting the <blink> tag even though webkit still supported it. Basically all of the times that I see this feature being used it is to make tiny, mostly transparent, or auto-hiding scrollbars that don't match the system UI at all and are a significant nuisance. I'm sure there are some sites that are styling them reasonably, but it doesn't seem to be the norm, even for the major players that have experienced design teams.
- sukilot 12y ago
  Of course nowadays we see that tiny, mostly transparent, auto hiding scrollbars are the system UI!

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Websites already implement their own scroll bars - Gmail, Google Spreadsheets, etc. It would be nice if instead of having to reimplement _everything_ about the

by OmarIsmail 12y ago

bluthru 12y ago
>Websites already implement their own scroll bars - Gmail, Google Spreadsheets, etc. As an OS X user who enjoys not seeing scrollbars, I find Google's use of them downright intrusive.
- userbinator 12y ago
  This is a good point - users are accustomed to the scrollbar style of the system they're using (which is often an adjustable preference), so it makes sense for scrollbars in web apps to follow what the OS does. While my scrollbar preferences are very different from yours (I prefer ones that are always-visible, large and easy-to-grab), I agree that the web apps you use should conform to your UI preferences, and not the other way around.
esrauch 12y ago
Gmail uses webkit scrollbar styling, they don't reimplement scrollbars from scratch. If you go to gmail in Firefox it uses the stock scrollbars, which is really a major advantage to Firefox in my mind. It's kind of like when Chrome stopped supporting the <blink> tag even though webkit still supported it. Basically all of the times that I see this feature being used it is to make tiny, mostly transparent, or auto-hiding scrollbars that don't match the system UI at all and are a significant nuisance. I'm sure there are some sites that are styling them reasonably, but it doesn't seem to be the norm, even for the major players that have experienced design teams.
- sukilot 12y ago
  Of course nowadays we see that tiny, mostly transparent, auto hiding scrollbars are the system UI!