Don't reinvent the scrollbar
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Don't reinvent the scrollbar
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Re: Don't reinvent the scrollbar
#2A guy makes a fun little feature for his blog and gets an entire write up on how he's doing it wrong. Awesome.
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#3A guy makes a fun little feature for his blog and gets an entire write up on how he's doing it wrong. Awesome.
Wasn't meant as a direct dig at anyone, just making my observations :)
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#4> "Simply hide all of the content which is not the article until the user reaches it. ... “But how do you implement this” you ask? Easy. (Be warned though, this code is untested!)"
First off, I wouldn't call that "Easy" code, or an "Easy" solution if that it is untested? More like a hypotheses. Secondly, I don't think that is a good alternative solution at all. That seems like a very messy way to handle the indication by changing the size of the scrollbar based on user triggered events.
While there are some decent points in this article (such as not splitting up your content into pages for ads), I think it still doesn't do a good job of defending why the top vertical bar for progress indication is bad. Nor does it give a good alternative.
And, as clone1018 pointed out in another comment, I don't think the indication feature was meant to be this ground-breaking UX feature or anything. I think it's more of some eye-candy for his blog.
I would be much more interested in a counter argument article on using the top horizontal bar for loading purposes (like YouTube does), since that is becoming more of a common UX feature.
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#5Yeah, Redfin does something similar, but we all know that Twitter and the endless-page killed the scrollbar as a useful meter.
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#7I personally like apple's recent approach to the scrollbar. Hiding it when not in use minimizes distraction. It's very easy to tell how long a single content page article is without needing the scrollbar to persist on the window.
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#9While I hate that Apple hides the scrollbar when not in use for the main page, the new iOS-inspired scrollbar looks much nicer when designing scrolling divs inside the page.
[Note: never said anything about custom scrollbars; just that websites with scrolling divs tend to look better on OSX]