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Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

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Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

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God I hate websites like that Reminds me of the 90's cringe trend of having gifs and audio and crap everywhere.. But at least those still had some html and could potentially be semantic. This modern cringe trend seems to have abandoned any hope of semantic web + all of the original ideas behind it.

the 90s web was extremely semantic in that the entire site was laid out as a table. tabular data is easily consumable!

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#52

And nobody is going to comment on the name? I think they really missed an opportunity here. Why not Scrotul?

I think you're joking, but if you're not, Lenis is a latin word meaning calm or smooth. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lenis#Latin

"Ballcock" is the plumbing term for that thing in your toilet tank that regulates the water flow.

That doesn't mean I'd call my new library "Ballcock", though.

That said, I'm going to go against the grain here and say that this really does appear to be quite nice for its niche. While I wouldn't use it on a generic web site, I could see someone using it to make an excellent art gallery or game or something of that nature.

Developer: don't get discouraged by all the hate you're seeing here. You clearly spent a lot of time on this, and if it works for your purposes, and those of others, great!

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

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I actually quite like this implementation of smoothness except for two things.

The max speed is way too low. None of the scrolling momentum is kept and it takes forever to get anywhere on the page.

Please, lets stop using the scroll bar as a loading bar. When I scroll down, I want to go down the page. Just slowly bring up page by page that get placed somewhere randomly on the screen space.

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