October 9, 2010

new twitter

I'm mostly a fan except for the broken scrolling behavior.

Web developers, it is not OK to mask a big chunk of horizontal scrollable space with a toolbar header thing like that. This breaks page up and page down scrolling (from the keyboard or clicking in the scrollbar trough.)

With your implementation, when a reader reaches the bottom of the page and then pages down to continue reading, he will lose a couple of lines of yet to be read content under that big toolbar header thing.

If you must have a toolbar across the top, move the scrollable areas of the page below it. It's not that difficult to not break such a basic navigation tool as page scrolling.

Posted by asa at 10:44 AM

 

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