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JQuery Scroll Path - Scroll a page along a custom path

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

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Post by mkmcdonald »

cobychapple wrote: post #38
mkmcdonald wrote: post #32

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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.

In my years as a Flash developer, I built many custom scrollbars: each more painstaking than the last. Why build something guaranteed to be lower in quality than something else that's been in place for years? Let the professionals innovate.

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

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Post by mkmcdonald »

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.

GrooveShark also overrides the default context (right-click) menu. That doesn't mean that it's a good idea.

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

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Post by potatolicious »

justwrote wrote: post #36
redorb wrote: post #35

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

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

Ugh, I think this site really gives credence to the top poster's concerns: it's whiz-bang cool at the expense of actual usability.

Chrome/Win7/Quad-Core i7 3.4GHz + 8GB DDR3 RAM

and the whole thing chugs, to the point where the website is difficult to navigate and parse.

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

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Post by nantes »

potatolicious wrote: post #43
justwrote wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ugh, I think this site really gives credence to the top poster's concerns: it's whiz-bang cool at the expense of actual usability. Chrome/Win7/Quad-Core i7 3.4GHz + 8GB DDR3 RAM and the whole thing chugs , to the point where the website is difficult to navigate and parse.

Huh, works pretty well for me. Chrome/Ubuntu 10.10/boring old Core Duo Mac Mini.
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