Building Like It's 1984: Scrollbars in Web Applications
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The article discusses the design and implementation of scrollbars in web applications, sparking a discussion on the relevance of traditional UI elements in modern web design.
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apothegm
3 months ago
Custom scroll bar widgets (as opposed to custom styling) are pure evil. Typically they don’t respond to mouse and trackpad scrolling the same way the user’s native OS widgets do, and that makes them awkward and miserable to use.
gnabgib
3 months ago
(2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30768595 or (2022) some sort of edit
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