>Imagine you were granted the magic power to change any website in the whole world-wide web the way you like it, to make it better, more functional, more useful, better looking, more pleasing or disrupting to the eye.
> Which one would you pick?
Well I'd remove the stupid fucking fake scroll bar from http://www.wikipediaredefined.com for starters. It's horribly unusable on Safari.
There was originally some "arty" looking scroll bar that looked like it was hand-rolled out of images and javascript, and completely failed to have any of the many subtle features that native scrollbars have gained over the years.
Terrific suggestions. I'm a bit lukewarm on the branding (it looks nice, but I don't know enough about marketing to really give it a fair assessment), but their redesign of the site content presentation is really practical, easy on the eyes, and improves usability a lot. I'd love to see something like this in practice.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 29.6 ms ] thread> Which one would you pick?
Well I'd remove the stupid fucking fake scroll bar from http://www.wikipediaredefined.com for starters. It's horribly unusable on Safari.
- my trackpoint isn't precise enough to move the slider at a reasonable speed;
- there's no click-to-scroll-up/-down buttons, common to pretty much all native scrollbars;
- the up/down arrow keys don't work on that page, either;
- oh, and it's ugly, as well as breaking the user's interface expectations.
I am using latest firefox on latest fedora and I don't see any problems. No fake scrollbars either.
Maybe it has been fixed ?
There was originally some "arty" looking scroll bar that looked like it was hand-rolled out of images and javascript, and completely failed to have any of the many subtle features that native scrollbars have gained over the years.
Maybe it's another wave of "redesigned websites" ?