Ironically this page implements its own scrolling function, but does not include a scroll bar. Using the scroll right/left gestures on my laptop it seems to scroll one bar at a time. So, even if I...
Ironically this page implements its own scrolling function, but does not include a scroll bar. Using the scroll right/left gestures on my laptop it seems to scroll one bar at a time. So, even if I scroll like an entire page width horizontally, it only advances to the next scrollbar.
While I'm criticizing this page, it's awfully light on content. Simply a screenshot of each scrollbar with a link to the wikipedia article for the operating system it was used on. No mentions of design considerations, the philosophy of why they chose this layout, etc. No mention of any linux DEs, widgets, toolkits, etc. There were some atari, commodore, and amiga interfaces that had interesting scroll bars. I recall when ubuntu / gnome switched to having scrollbars hidden by default until you hovered over them, then they appeared outside the window, that was a big, unusual thing, and the folks behind the decision made a big blog post explaining the rationale of why they decided on this scrollbar design... I was kinda hoping for some of that, not just ten pictures of scrollbars.
At least one interesting thing is the scroll are have some interactivity. I didn’t notice that until I was trying to scroll on mobile to the other scroll bars.
At least one interesting thing is the scroll are have some interactivity. I didn’t notice that until I was trying to scroll on mobile to the other scroll bars.
They definitely get points for that. The OSX scrollbar even does the static texture thing old versions of OSX did. Maybe this would have been better titled "Recreating old scroll bars on modern...
They definitely get points for that. The OSX scrollbar even does the static texture thing old versions of OSX did. Maybe this would have been better titled "Recreating old scroll bars on modern systems" or something. The "history" part seems really lacking still.
Ironically this page implements its own scrolling function, but does not include a scroll bar. Using the scroll right/left gestures on my laptop it seems to scroll one bar at a time. So, even if I scroll like an entire page width horizontally, it only advances to the next scrollbar.
While I'm criticizing this page, it's awfully light on content. Simply a screenshot of each scrollbar with a link to the wikipedia article for the operating system it was used on. No mentions of design considerations, the philosophy of why they chose this layout, etc. No mention of any linux DEs, widgets, toolkits, etc. There were some atari, commodore, and amiga interfaces that had interesting scroll bars. I recall when ubuntu / gnome switched to having scrollbars hidden by default until you hovered over them, then they appeared outside the window, that was a big, unusual thing, and the folks behind the decision made a big blog post explaining the rationale of why they decided on this scrollbar design... I was kinda hoping for some of that, not just ten pictures of scrollbars.
At least one interesting thing is the scroll are have some interactivity. I didn’t notice that until I was trying to scroll on mobile to the other scroll bars.
They definitely get points for that. The OSX scrollbar even does the static texture thing old versions of OSX did. Maybe this would have been better titled "Recreating old scroll bars on modern systems" or something. The "history" part seems really lacking still.