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Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
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Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#12This is pretty funny, but God do I hate back to the top buttons. I'm reading a story on a page with a back to the top button. I get distracted in real life and change the grip on my phone. I look back at my phone to continue reading and I'm at the top of the page. Now I have to find where I was again. I've probably lost more time from accidentally hitting the back to the top button than the button has saved me time.…
Me too! My phone already has a built-in “back to top” button. I don’t need your ugly 0.5 opacity CSS circle occluding my view of the content.
I’m not sure I’ve ever clicked (or tapped) one of those buttons. The same complaint applies to share bars, and honestly, sticky headers as well. I really prefer to just read the content and let my browser handle the chrome.
Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#13I think other than being kitchy, the part I love the most is NO FRAMEWORK: plain js. No pre/mid/post/art-deco processor that turns 4 hours of work into 40 hours.
Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#14This is so pointless I absolutely love it
Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#15This is pretty funny, but God do I hate back to the top buttons. I'm reading a story on a page with a back to the top button. I get distracted in real life and change the grip on my phone. I look back at my phone to continue reading and I'm at the top of the page. Now I have to find where I was again. I've probably lost more time from accidentally hitting the back to the top button than the button has saved me time.…
I really hate them on iOS, because the system comes with back-to-top functionality so all these buttons are doing are looking ugly and covering part of the page. And don’t even get me started on when AMP breaks scrolling…
For anyone else who was wondering, you can tap the top of the address bar on iOS Safari. I think it has to be expanded first. I didn’t know that and hope it helps.
Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#16This is pretty funny, but God do I hate back to the top buttons. I'm reading a story on a page with a back to the top button. I get distracted in real life and change the grip on my phone. I look back at my phone to continue reading and I'm at the top of the page. Now I have to find where I was again. I've probably lost more time from accidentally hitting the back to the top button than the button has saved me time.…
I really hate them on iOS, because the system comes with back-to-top functionality so all these buttons are doing are looking ugly and covering part of the page. And don’t even get me started on when AMP breaks scrolling…
I just want to take a moment to give a shoutout to the Tweetbot devs, which expanded on iOS’ back-to-top functionality:
Tapping the top of the page again takes you back to your scroll position! Incredibly useful for recovering from accidental taps, and I kind of wish iOS would copy it, since it happens more often than I’d like.
Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really hate them on iOS, because the system comes with back-to-top functionality so all these buttons are doing are looking ugly and covering part of the page. And don’t even get me started on when AMP breaks scrolling…
For anyone else who was wondering, you can tap the top of the address bar on iOS Safari. I think it has to be expanded first. I didn’t know that and hope it helps.
(This works through the system, by the way; it’s not just limited to Safari.)
Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#18I love stupid fun stuff like this.
Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really hate them on iOS, because the system comes with back-to-top functionality so all these buttons are doing are looking ugly and covering part of the page. And don’t even get me started on when AMP breaks scrolling…
For anyone else who was wondering, you can tap the top of the address bar on iOS Safari. I think it has to be expanded first. I didn’t know that and hope it helps.
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Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#20I think other than being kitchy, the part I love the most is NO FRAMEWORK: plain js. No pre/mid/post/art-deco processor that turns 4 hours of work into 40 hours.
I've been developing some games and frontend on my free time for fun. I've been using typescript and Pixi.js but other than that nothing else. As a backend engineer, I've always thought about learning a frontend framework but I've never actually had a strong need of it.
So question if you're a frontend engineer: Should I? I never felt the need of a framework despite I render quite a bit of dom elements. Do I have a need that I just don't know right now?