there is no excuse for this shit. there just isn't. i do not care what bug up your ass you got about minimalist design or what moron's design guide you shoved up your nose: do not do this
there are one thousand nine hundred and eighty of god's own pixels spanning the width of the window. you can afford to spend more than five of them on the fucking scroll bar.
in general i'm sick of people thinking scroll bars are some optional part of interface design instead of a critically-useful tool for positioning and navigating documents, and if you think the scroll bar is just an annoying little gray thing that should be shoved out of the way and hidden, this is a very personal "fuck you".
Scrollbars are so important for navigation that I use an extension called RockMargin in Visual Studio to make it much easier to understand my code. It gives a bird's eye view of the document so that I can easily jump to "the big green section" (a big blob of "TODO FIXME" comments) and "the jagged mountains" (a switch...case event handler). Basically, I made my scrollbar 120 px wide, and I love it
