A Personal API

#1

Post by NetOpWibby » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 6:05 PM UTC

Re: A Personal API

#2

Post by xwowsersx » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 6:24 PM UTC

I can't read this because I'm having trouble scrolling to the right. Just me? What's with the annoying horizontal scrolling?

Re: A Personal API

#3

Post by toastercat » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 6:26 PM UTC

xwowsersx wrote: post #2

I can't read this because I'm having trouble scrolling to the right. Just me? What's with the annoying horizontal scrolling?

Having the same issue. I've always understood horizontal scrolling to be a big web design no-no. On this page, it's especially awful because it scrolls painfully slowly for me, using latest version of Firefox.

Re: A Personal API

#4

Post by DHowett » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 6:26 PM UTC

xwowsersx wrote: post #2

I can't read this because I'm having trouble scrolling to the right. Just me? What's with the annoying horizontal scrolling?

When it does scroll (which you must do using vertical scroll instead of horizontal, apparently) it's slower than standard vertical scrolling and it repeatedly jumps back and forth before you hit the rightmost edge of the page. It doesn't even respond to standard pagination keys.

Re: A Personal API

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Post by eightysixfour » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 6:26 PM UTC

xwowsersx wrote: post #2

I can't read this because I'm having trouble scrolling to the right. Just me? What's with the annoying horizontal scrolling?

You have to scroll down to scroll right. What an awful design.

Re: A Personal API

#6

Post by JeffRosenberg » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 6:28 PM UTC

xwowsersx wrote: post #2

I can't read this because I'm having trouble scrolling to the right. Just me? What's with the annoying horizontal scrolling?

Scrolling down has been overridden to scroll to the right instead. So just scroll up and down to read. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: A Personal API

#7

Post by Fauntleroy » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 6:28 PM UTC

I know we're supposed to be reading something on this page, but the scroll UX is so amazing I don't think anyone's going to be able to look past it.

There's no world in which you can: make your website scroll horizontally, disable horizontal scroll, make vertical scrolling actually scroll horizontally and have users be okay with it.

Re: A Personal API

#8

Post by xwowsersx » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 6:29 PM UTC

JeffRosenberg wrote: post #6

xwowsersx wrote: post #2

I can't read this because I'm having trouble scrolling to the right. Just me? What's with the annoying horizontal scrolling?

Scrolling down has been overridden to scroll to the right instead. So just scroll up and down to read. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Haha finally figured that out by accident. Weird.

Re: A Personal API

#9

Post by jaquers » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 6:31 PM UTC

Fauntleroy wrote: post #7

I know we're supposed to be reading something on this page, but the scroll UX is so amazing I don't think anyone's going to be able to look past it. There's no world in which you can: make your website scroll horizontally, disable horizontal scroll, make vertical scrolling actually scroll horizontally and have users be okay with it.

Also breaks back / forward gestures on Mac.

Re: A Personal API

#10

Post by rhacker » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 6:35 PM UTC

jaquers wrote: post #9

Fauntleroy wrote: post #7

I know we're supposed to be reading something on this page, but the scroll UX is so amazing I don't think anyone's going to be able to look past it. There's no world in which you can: make your website scroll horizontally, disable horizontal scroll, make vertical scrolling actually scroll horizontally and have users be okay with it.

Also breaks back / forward gestures on Mac.

Was going to say that!