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please don't hide scrollbars :)
If you mean the "Hide scrollbars" note, I agree 100% (: There are a few specific situations where it can be useful, but I added the caveat precisely because it’s generally not a good practice.
re scrollbars, Can you give an example?
please don't hide scrollbars :)
In short: unless the native scroll bar will be wrong, do not under any circumstances hide it.
There are some good descriptions and hints, but what the site really needs is examples. Just looking at the code doesn't help me much. The descriptions are also mostly so short, that they could just as well be tooltips on the homepage. The whole premise of the page is a collection of "web tricks worth remembering" and I can't fathom what bash (e.g. `du -hd 1 . | sort -hr`) is doing there.
You’re absolutely right, thanks for the feedback. I initially included live examples (mostly through CodePen), but they were taking too much time to maintain, so I stopped. The Bash entry was really just a half-finished personal note that I never properly edited. It’s probably out of scope too.
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If you mean the "Hide scrollbars" note, I agree 100% (: There are a few specific situations where it can be useful, but I added the caveat precisely because it’s generally not a good practice.
>There are a few specific situations where it can be useful re scrollbars, Can you give an example?
They're not really 'tricks' as much of mentions of assorted features of HTML and CSS. You get to discover a similar assortment of things (with much more immediately available detail and many examples) just clicking around MDN.
> Each post-it pairs one useful platform feature with a small example I can’t find a single example; each post-it just shows some code but not the result of it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you mean the "Hide scrollbars" note, I agree 100% (: There are a few specific situations where it can be useful, but I added the caveat precisely because it’s generally not a good practice.
>There are a few specific situations where it can be useful re scrollbars, Can you give an example?
- A swipe/drag carousel with visible arrows or dots, especially a looping carousel where the native scrollbar does not represent a meaningful start and end
- An accordion or expanding panel that animates to reveal all of its content. During the transition, its intermediate height may briefly produce a scrollbar (and a visual flash), even though the fully expanded state does not need one
- Highly visual or experimental interfaces where scrolling is communicated through another control, or where the scrollable area is decorative and scrolling is not required to access the content
please don't hide scrollbars :)