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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 intpx »

colmvp wrote: post #79
cool-RR wrote: 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.

i have worked with way to many people that don't know what the navigation keys do, don't understand most of the control keys, and the only function key they know is F5.

Way too many people who have never used an actual console terminal

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

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Post by TekMol »

majkinetor wrote: post #113
cool-RR wrote: 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…

Vimum plugin gg - go to top G - go to bottom You can also go anywhere on page (litterary) with single key (homework). Much better then home/end as you usually need to hunt for those keys, or even use them with Fn modifier.

The problem with plugins is that they give full control over your browsing to whoever controls the plugin.

I sometimes install plugins myself if the code is open source and it is small enough for me to vet it.

I would love vimium, but the code is way too big to vet it myself.

I wish there was some party that is trustworthy, vets codebases like these and publish hashes of trusted versions.

An alternative would be more modular codebases. So instead of publishing a giant box of code with all kinds of vim-like behavior, publish lots of small ones. Like the code to make gg work.

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

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Post by geniium »

cool-RR wrote: 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…

hahaha nice thread

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

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Post by Jimmc414 »

retube wrote: post #156
cool-RR wrote: 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.

Since your brain is already in keyboard learning mode, give Shift + Home and Ctrl + Shift + Home a try. It works wonders when selecting text for cutting and pasting. The same combos work with End as well as the arrow keys.

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

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Post by hknapp »

esperent wrote: post #139
fnordsensei wrote: post #125

Very good, but it should also be non-functioning 60% of the time due to repairs and/or inspections.

I'm trying to think of times when I've seen a non-functional elevator and can't think of one.

Try living in an eight story crapartment and you'll understand.

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

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Post by kevincox »

mrkwse wrote: post #159
kabacha wrote: 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.

As far as I am aware it does not. That sounds like a useful shortcut.

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

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Post by zrobotics »

cool-RR wrote: post #161
retube wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

This amazes me. Thanks for your honesty, there are probably millions of people who are in the same position. While you're looking down, wouldn't hurt to look at all the different keys and give them a try.

I had a family member call me in a legitimate panic because her "Gmail got hacked, all of a sudden the whole screen changed and there a bunch of weird code all over the screen!"

Turns out the f12 key was the culprit; took me longer than it should have to realize she was describing the Firefox developer console.

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Post by julianlam »

mrkwse wrote: post #159
kabacha wrote: 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.

No, I feel like a caveman saying this, but if you want to go to the top of the page, you have to flick your finger down really fast, or reload the page.

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

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Post by kevincox »

leonardteo wrote: post #179

A lot of people already mentioned here the Home button. Anecdote: for years we kept getting users asking for a back to top button and we always told them to just use the Home button and they thought it was the most amazing thing ever. Most of our users are on Windows. Anyway, we did end up having to put a Back to top button. It was clear that users just don’t get it. Most people really don’t know what the Home button…

I don't know why this is "thanks to webmail". At least firefox can handle this perfectly fine.

That being said seeing the email is nice anyways in case you need to share it with someone or type it into your phone.

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