- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- technews@radiation.party
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- technews@radiation.party
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.
Windows 10 start menu not even showing you the scrollbar unless you guess where it is and move the mouse there.
My last place of work used Google office apps, and I spent a lot of time in Sheets. The right and left scroll buttons were straight up broken…they just did nothing…and besides being tiny, the contrast on both scrollbars was such that you couldn’t even tell where the indicators were