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But then I realized that book and magazine publishers have been "reinventing the page number" since before there was a web.
Of course information designer will be reinventing the elements of the UI. The process of design is making form and content a unified whole.
Scrollbar within a scrollbar!
Content
...> One alternative is to ignore iOS and OS X users. But that’s not very nice. There are many scrolling libraries available that you can use, such as NiceScroll.
> Or you can just make your own indicator like the one seen at the very start of the article. Just don’t use a horizontal indicator for vertical progression :)
No! Do not do this. Just stop. Stop reinventing and reimplementing the scrollbar.
I do it that way and I have seen many people who do it the same. However I agree, that pages are bullshit in a web context.
I 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.
If anyone has a suggestion, shoot. I went so far as looking for a hotkey for toggling scrollbar display (which I still think would be a good idea), but couldn't find anything. For the record, I'm using Synergy to control mouse/keyboard from a Ubuntu box with a MBP slave machine.