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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

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Post by giancarlostoro »

Mirioron wrote: post #9

This 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.…

They really should only be at the bottom of an article, less annoying then in my opinion.

Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator

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Post by kabacha »

"back to top" is just such an epitome of how out of touch some modern design is.

We had buttons on our keyboards that did this for half a century now. As for phones it should be up to the web-browser to implement it, nobody wants to use your idea of how scrolling should work. My machine already knows how I want to browse my content, don't pretend you know better.

Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator

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Post by nirui »

CGamesPlay wrote: post #21

I was expecting the button to light up and having to wait before being taken to the top. Maybe an improvement for version 2.0!

And then you have to select the floor before it's going up, Ha!

Joke aside, maybe add a feature to allow user to pause/suspend the "Lifting"? This will give user a chance to "Hey! oh wait" when they "Passed the desired floor by mistake".

Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator

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Post by robertoandred »

saagarjha wrote: post #10
Mirioron wrote: post #9

This 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…

Except on AMP pages.

Fuck AMP.

Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

thunderbong wrote: post #33

Warning - There's elevator music as well! Wish this was mentioned on the page, it was a bit embarrassing when it started playing in the middle of our daily standup!

I respect that it put you in a bind, but a warning would have totally ruined the joke for me.
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