New Lifehacker

Focusing on tablets?

As someone who browses from a computer (shock horror!) this sucks. Everything is so squashed.

Scrolling is glitchy on Chrome Win x64 10.0.648.18

I noticed they did this to Jalopnik the other day, makes it much more difficult to browse the list of headlines. I very rarely want to read the first story on the list, or each story for that matter. I use sites like Jalopnik, LifeHacker, and even Hacker News as a stream of content during the day (that doesn't care if I skip a day, unlike my RSS reader), I pull up the page a few times a day, scan the headlines, and pick out 1 or 2 stories that actually attract my interest. The new interface for Gawker sites actually makes this process harder, not easier.

That looks like something designed for a tablet.

Actually it's my observation that any websites using (css:)fixed elements feels weirdly unnatural on desktop.