member of @staff, lapsed linguist and drummer, electronics hobbyist
zip's bf
no supervisor but ludd means the threads any good
PLEASE stop doing this thing where you hide the scroll bar when it's not being used, or make it invisible, or super thin and difficult to see. this post explains why. as an example of this...
this is a great post that I 100% agree with, and also as someone with Brain Problems I find myself looking at the scroll bar on web pages a lot for reassurance about how far through a particular long read I am, and hidden-by-default scroll bars are infuriating to me
if you put developers in charge of a city they would be like "it's long since time that we removed these ugly and unsightly tactile pavers on our curb cuts, to better pursue the minimalist aesthetic which is the future of good design. and we should stop having walk signals announce out loud when it's safe to walk- good design should speak for itself!"
to be honest with you i would not be surprised if there are city planners/designers who are frustrated by those things. as a fan of city planning most city planners are the worst
you almost certainly already have tried, but if you middle click a non-link in a page that scrolls, at least on windows and Linux scroll will follow the mouse, and might enable easier bindings than the scrollbar even if i think the scrollbar also shouldn't be hidden
this doesn't really work for me because it scrolls very fast and can be erotic erratic with eye tracking
talon has a similar mode where the scroll follows your gaze at a much more reasonable pace, which we also sometimes use, but it's situational and a lot of the time just clicking the scroll bar is better because its less vocal strain
edit: correction of extremely funny dictographic error
oh i see, I thought you were describing clicking and holding the handle, not the empty "track", got it
oh no yeah dragging with eye tracking is a nightmare and we avoid doing it like the plague
https://cohost.org/spiders/post/133355-how-we-managed-to-di
an update on how we managed to disable it on our computer (firefox and linux)
Unfortunately it's useless for that most of the time because "infinite scroll" bullshit.
