Scrollbars. Ever heard of them? They’re pretty cool. Click and drag on a scrollbar and you can move content around in a scrollable content pane. I love that shit. Every day I am scrolling on my computer, all day long. But the scrollbars are getting smaller and this is increasingly becoming a problem. I would show you screenshots but they’re so small that even screenshotting them is hard to do. And people keep making them even smaller, hiding them away, its like they don’t want you to scroll! “Ah”, they say, “that’s what the scroll wheel is for”. My friend, not everyone can use a scroll wheel or a swipe up touch screen. And me, a happy scroll-wheeler, even I would like to quickly jump around some time.
There’s the keyword. There should be easy to navigate settings for this.
The problem with modern designers and developers is that they push the narrative that there is “one” way to do things so they don’t have to maintain different configurations.
It’s lazy. It’s incompetent. It’s what makes them more money for doing less work.
The solution is to have higher standards. Don’t let these fools tell you what you want just so their jobs are easier.