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Is my scrollwheel broken? Oh, no, somebody just abused Javascript events for a horizontal scroll.
Meanwhile I'll be in my sweet, sweet grave.
Edit: looks like HN can't show the shopping trolley
Is my scrollwheel broken? Oh, no, somebody just abused Javascript events for a horizontal scroll.
Don't mess with scroll. You will always get it wrong.
My long term bet: computing will move towards an interface driven by "emoji as command". Custom iconography will fade out as the interoperability (and familiarity) of popular unicode symbols becomes dominant. So much of the existing textual input we use is designed to overcome the limitations of our software. In the future if you want to go home then you'll ⌂. If you want to go to the supermarket then you'll U+1F6D2.…
The latest kids craze is always the wave of the future, except actually it's usually just a craze and will end up looking just as dated as the Rubik's Cube.
Is my scrollwheel broken? Oh, no, somebody just abused Javascript events for a horizontal scroll.
The scrolling is so horrible on this page. Only way I can move forward (right) is by scrolling up and one full swipe on my track pad moves it ~200 pixels.
Is my scrollwheel broken? Oh, no, somebody just abused Javascript events for a horizontal scroll.
The same self-consumption can also be seen in the cryptocurrency space.
What's with the bizarre horizontal scrolling?
I actually like it. Constraining the text width improves readability, columns make more efficient use of the available space, and horizontal scrolling avoids the need for vertical pagination when using columns.
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The scrolling is so horrible on this page. Only way I can move forward (right) is by scrolling up and one full swipe on my track pad moves it ~200 pixels.
I had the same experience, but I found that the arrow keys worked fairly well for moving side-to-side. The presence of a workaround still doesn't make this kind of thing acceptable though.
The mapping of vertical scroll to horizontal scroll is something that should be done by the browser when using a multi-column layout.
My most recent attempt is this: https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/201904240732/Xanadu%20Hy...
Right after the title there is a checkbox, checked by default, that when unchecked will lay the document out with multi-column chapters and horizontal scroll inside a chapter, vertical scroll to move between chapters.
I use a touchpad which allows horizontal scrolling so there is no need to remap v-scroll to h-scroll, but that would not work with most mice that only have a plain scroll wheel.
In practice, I too find the cursor keys (also try page-up/-down) the most comfortable way. It’s still jankier than it should but I hope that browsers’ handling of CSS scroll snap points will improve.
Although the multi-column layout works well for me, it does not for most people because of limitations in both the browser and their input devices, so I had to make single-column the default.
My long term bet: computing will move towards an interface driven by "emoji as command". Custom iconography will fade out as the interoperability (and familiarity) of popular unicode symbols becomes dominant. So much of the existing textual input we use is designed to overcome the limitations of our software. In the future if you want to go home then you'll ⌂. If you want to go to the supermarket then you'll U+1F6D2.…