JQuery Scroll Path - Scroll a page along a custom path • Hacker News Board

Re: JQuery Scroll Path - Scroll a page along a custom path

#31

Post by lbotos » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 6:02 PM UTC

http://www.artofflightmovie.com/ uses a similar effect but uses a native scrollbar.

Re: JQuery Scroll Path - Scroll a page along a custom path

#32

Post by mkmcdonald » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 6:23 PM UTC

Deestan wrote: post #22

I appreciate the beauty, but you are breaking the web when doing things like this. Some breakages: * PageUp and PageDown doesn't work. * Home and End doesn't work. * Long-clicking the scrollbar doesn't work A: Should react immediately, not on mouseup. * Long-clicking the scrollbar doesn't work B: Should rapidfire (like with holding down PageDown). * Middle-clicking the scroll wheel doesn't bring up the analog-ish scr…

This should a warning to all over-enthusiastic designers/developers on the Internet. Please stop creating custom scrollbars. Web browsers already provide wonderful scrollbars.

Re: JQuery Scroll Path - Scroll a page along a custom path

#33

Post by ThomPete » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 6:53 PM UTC

Deestan wrote: post #22

I appreciate the beauty, but you are breaking the web when doing things like this. Some breakages: * PageUp and PageDown doesn't work. * Home and End doesn't work. * Long-clicking the scrollbar doesn't work A: Should react immediately, not on mouseup. * Long-clicking the scrollbar doesn't work B: Should rapidfire (like with holding down PageDown). * Middle-clicking the scroll wheel doesn't bring up the analog-ish scr…

This is completely missing the point of demos like these.

It doesn't matter whether it breaks the web. It also shows new ways of thinking.

Dont forget that whatever is currently the "rule" is always in flux.

I for one hope that people will continue to "break the web" like this.

Re: JQuery Scroll Path - Scroll a page along a custom path

#34

Post by plorkyeran » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 7:05 PM UTC

intenex wrote: post #4

This is like web 1.0 ported to 2.0

Yeah, this reminds me of the sort of thing you'd find on DHTML gallery sites in the mid-90s.

Re: JQuery Scroll Path - Scroll a page along a custom path

#35

Post by redorb » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 8:02 PM UTC

http://www.nike.com/jumpman23/aj2012/

Best use I've seen.

Re: JQuery Scroll Path - Scroll a page along a custom path

#36

Post by justwrote » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 9:02 PM UTC

redorb wrote: post #35

http://www.nike.com/jumpman23/aj2012/ Best use I've seen.

another nice example: http://beetle.com/

Re: JQuery Scroll Path - Scroll a page along a custom path

#37

Post by vyrotek » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 9:41 PM UTC

mkmcdonald wrote: post #32

Deestan wrote: post #22

I appreciate the beauty, but you are breaking the web when doing things like this. Some breakages: * PageUp and PageDown doesn't work. * Home and End doesn't work. * Long-clicking the scrollbar doesn't work A: Should react immediately, not on mouseup. * Long-clicking the scrollbar doesn't work B: Should rapidfire (like with holding down PageDown). * Middle-clicking the scroll wheel doesn't bring up the analog-ish scr…

This should a warning to all over-enthusiastic designers/developers on the Internet. Please stop creating custom scrollbars. Web browsers already provide wonderful scrollbars.

I find it interesting that Gmail has custom scroll bars.

Re: JQuery Scroll Path - Scroll a page along a custom path

#38

Post by cobychapple » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 10:31 PM UTC

mkmcdonald wrote: post #32

Deestan wrote: post #22

I appreciate the beauty, but you are breaking the web when doing things like this. Some breakages: * PageUp and PageDown doesn't work. * Home and End doesn't work. * Long-clicking the scrollbar doesn't work A: Should react immediately, not on mouseup. * Long-clicking the scrollbar doesn't work B: Should rapidfire (like with holding down PageDown). * Middle-clicking the scroll wheel doesn't bring up the analog-ish scr…

This should a warning to all over-enthusiastic designers/developers on the Internet. Please stop creating custom scrollbars. Web browsers already provide wonderful scrollbars.

Do you really think discouraging enthusiastic designers and developers from building innovative things that push the boundaries of what's possible with browsers is the way forward?

... for the sake of preserving the status quo of default scrollbars, no less?

Come on.

Re: JQuery Scroll Path - Scroll a page along a custom path

#39

Post by luchs » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 10:52 PM UTC

vyrotek wrote: post #37

mkmcdonald wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This should a warning to all over-enthusiastic designers/developers on the Internet. Please stop creating custom scrollbars. Web browsers already provide wonderful scrollbars.

I find it interesting that Gmail has custom scroll bars.

But it's only a visual tweak - they still behave exactly like the normal scrollbars.

Re: JQuery Scroll Path - Scroll a page along a custom path

#40

Post by qq66 » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 10:59 PM UTC

cobychapple wrote: post #38

mkmcdonald wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This should a warning to all over-enthusiastic designers/developers on the Internet. Please stop creating custom scrollbars. Web browsers already provide wonderful scrollbars.

Do you really think discouraging enthusiastic designers and developers from building innovative things that push the boundaries of what's possible with browsers is the way forward? ... for the sake of preserving the status quo of default scrollbars, no less? Come on.

Yes. The same way I would discourage an enthusiastic designer from building a car with the brake pedal on the right and the gas on the left.

The idea might be good -- most people are right-handed and might have better response times with their right leg when it's straighter. But there's too much inertia in the current convention, and the change can't be made incrementally without creating serious risks.