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I would love to see where further iterations of magicscroll would go. Slightly disappointed by the extremely skeptical HN responses though...reminds me of the stuffy old science committee in Futurama.
No idea someone was working on this RIGHT THEN. You are my freaking hero.
It worked really well for me, was a really pleasant way to read, and helped me keep my place better. I'll be using this in Chrome.
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Edit: After using it to read a few articles, here are some additional thoughts.
* I don't have to be as vigilant with scrolling to keep my position (at the top of the page, in my previous method). I can track where I am on the page based on its vertical position, because that's not changing anymore.
* I wish the bar were more visible. I want to be able to track it in my periphery.
* I can scroll up on the first page. I shouldn't be able to.
* The reversed scroll direction in Mac OS X 10.8 doesn't make sense anymore. I feel like I should be controlling the bar. Perhaps reverse the scroll direction?
Nothing happens. Is this a clever way of saying that nobody should scroll at all on the web? Why is this the top story on HN? Or is this saying that everybody should use Chrome? I don't. I use Firefox and it doesn't do anything either on Windows XP, Windows 7 or Windows 8. I have all three sitting right here. Nothing happens.
Its a neat experiment. It reminded me of the scroll wars of yore, when the VT100 came out it had "smooth scroll" as an option vs "jump scroll" and there were long and heated debates about which was better. I personally found 'jump scroll' better but that was just me. The moving bar revealing text is ok for keeping text from moving but it feels weird when part of the page is from one page and another part is from anot…
The Guide to VMS Performance Management[1] suggested that you enable smooth scrolling on your VTxxx terminals and cut your user's baud rate from 9600 to 4800 in order to support more users, since the smooth scrollers wouldn't notice that their baud rate was lower. Yeah, I was a jumper.
[1] http://odl.sysworks.biz/disk$cddoc04mar21/decw$book/d32va177... [2]
[2] I can remember enough of this paragraph from the '80s to google it in one go, but I can't remember my wife's cell phone number. I should have words with this brain.
I can't scroll whatever magical way he intends in Firefox for some reason. I want the world to scroll AT ALL please.