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.

Too narrow, hidden, minimal feedback…

  • HadriscusEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    I bought a macropad with knobs just because of this… (I use a Wacom tablet in place of a mouse and it doesn’t have a worthy scrollwheel alternative, so I couldn’t navigate many “modern” websites and programs)

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      I have a Wacom Intuos with a scroll wheel.

      Edit: not the touch ring, either. An old school one with an actual wheel, just like a mouse scroll wheel but wider.

      • HadriscusEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        oh nice. What’s the model ? I’m curious, never heard of it

          • HadriscusEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Didn’t know about it, makes you wonder why they deemed the “touch ring” superior to a proper physical wheel

            • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              There was a time in the mid-00s when “touch” was a buzzword that immediately increased sales by 200%, and they probably never got out of that mode.