Scrollbars are becoming a problem
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Scrollbars. Ever heard of them? They’re pretty cool. Click and drag on a scrollbar and you can move content around in a scrollable content pane. I love that shit. Every day I am scrolling on my computer, all day long. But the scrollbars are getting smaller and this is increasingly becoming a problem. I would show you screenshots but they’re so small that even screenshotting them is hard to do. And people keep making them even smaller, hiding them away, its like they don’t want you to scroll! “Ah”, they say, “that’s what the scroll wheel is for”. My friend, not everyone can use a scroll wheel or a swipe up touch screen. And me, a happy scroll-wheeler, even I would like to quickly jump around some time.
  • paysrenttobirds
    5·
    1 year ago

    10 years ago I thought web 3.0 was going to be the separation of content from style and layout, like you would choose your lens and get to make all of the visual and user interaction choices while viewing whatever information the site provided. We sort of got more apis, but now they’re being locked down. There’s definitely an accessibility problem that major sites have been able to ignore while third parties filled in the gaps either through api or scraping that now I don’t know how we can pressure them to take responsibility when they prevent those ad hoc means.