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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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It still amazes me that people tolerate that as a substitute. It's a key combo that requires two hands, for what on a regular keyboard is one finger. Perhaps Mac people never hold a cup of coffee in their hand while using a computer?

They don’t. A Starbucks cup is too heavy to hold it for a long period of time.

I'm tired just thinking about this.

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

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post #79
post #68

The "back to top" functionality is so useful in web pages. I wish they would make a dedicated button on keyboards that just takes you to the top of the page. Better yet, it can work in other apps too! It could, for example, take you to the beginning of a line when you're writing text. Edit: Wow, I thought I was going the extra mile to make the joke obvious by saying the key should also take you to the beginning of a…

Hacker News attracts a lot of smart readers, so I'm kind of surprised that your comment actually 'fooled' people. It was very obvious sarcasm.

When people don't get humor, they're still picking up on the incongruity in it, and this bothers them.

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

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right cmd + up arrow and you end up with free cofee-hand

it dorsnt work with cmd

It does for me. I've always used ⌘+up and ⌘+down to go to the top and bottom of the page. After eight years of using Macs, I didn't even know you could use the function key as suggested above.

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

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If I'm not mistaken, Fn + Left Arrow is Home on a Mac. Similar to Fn + up/down is Page Up/Down, and IIRC Fn + Right is End.

It still amazes me that people tolerate that as a substitute. It's a key combo that requires two hands, for what on a regular keyboard is one finger. Perhaps Mac people never hold a cup of coffee in their hand while using a computer?

Accelerated scrolling makes the home key superfluous. Just scroll "fast".

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

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post #75
post #68

The "back to top" functionality is so useful in web pages. I wish they would make a dedicated button on keyboards that just takes you to the top of the page. Better yet, it can work in other apps too! It could, for example, take you to the beginning of a line when you're writing text. Edit: Wow, I thought I was going the extra mile to make the joke obvious by saying the key should also take you to the beginning of a…

Sarcasm is nearly impossible to detect in writing. A tip: If it seems the whole world is a problem, it's probably not the world that is the problem.

It's very easy to detect if you knew the button existed.

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

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post #68

The "back to top" functionality is so useful in web pages. I wish they would make a dedicated button on keyboards that just takes you to the top of the page. Better yet, it can work in other apps too! It could, for example, take you to the beginning of a line when you're writing text. Edit: Wow, I thought I was going the extra mile to make the joke obvious by saying the key should also take you to the beginning of a…

After 20 years of using keyboards, I have, thanks to this comment, discovered the "Home" button.

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

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post #75
post #68

The "back to top" functionality is so useful in web pages. I wish they would make a dedicated button on keyboards that just takes you to the top of the page. Better yet, it can work in other apps too! It could, for example, take you to the beginning of a line when you're writing text. Edit: Wow, I thought I was going the extra mile to make the joke obvious by saying the key should also take you to the beginning of a…

Sarcasm is nearly impossible to detect in writing. A tip: If it seems the whole world is a problem, it's probably not the world that is the problem.

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

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post #32

"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.

Does Android not have some native scroll-to-top gesture/button? On iOS you just tap the status bar and it's uncommon for it not to work where you'd expect it to.

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

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post #79

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Hacker News attracts a lot of smart readers, so I'm kind of surprised that your comment actually 'fooled' people. It was very obvious sarcasm.

Plenty of Mac users out there without a “Home” button.

Also, CMD + Arrow Up scrolls to top.
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