Every now and again I come across a web article written in a beautiful serif font.
“Ooh, who are you?” I mumble under my breath.
I inspect it in devtools only to find out it’s Georgia.
Gets me every time.
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You can shame me for unsubscribing from your marketing spam, but you can’t win. With each opt-out I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
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I am thinking it’s a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they perfectly align.
What site generators do people like for user guides and documentation?
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I made an old man rant on social.lol about scrollbars and it became my most popular social media post ever. Gives me warm fuzzies that so many others care about this humble-yet-powerful UI control.
@ranylt@wandering.shop @kagan Yes. So with Discord I can’t really use the “native” app because of the scrollbar situation there. So I use it in the web browser with the ScrollAnywhere extension installed.
This extension lets me scroll, uh, anywhere by clicking and dragging the page as if on a mobile device. It’s really handy and I wish I could install it at the OS level.
Ok so I'm watching Babylon 5 now and it's all @ghoulpus’s fault.
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Upgraded all of my internet gear down to the ethernet cables. Hopefully this finally solves the terrible coverage in my house. But why do these fancy routers need to look like alien tech from sci-fi?
I had scrollbars on the brain and I’m trying to write more, so here are some thoughts about the mighty scrollbar as a slowly dying UI control. #WebDev #a11y #ui #design
https://blakewatson.com/journal/neglecting-the-scrollbar-a-costly-trend-in-ui-design/
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The opening keyboard synths on Everything In Its Right Place. Bliss I tell you. https://open.spotify.com/track/2kRFrWaLWiKq48YYVdGcm8?si=486878dc56ed43be
Anyone who uses or knows about screen readers… do they support scrollbars decently? Do they announce anything about length of the page or your current location on a page?
Just curious if the visual feedback scrollbars offer is represented by screen readers.
ChatGPT just wrote me a beautiful short post about the merits of the scrollbar as a UI control. Guess I’ll toss it and write a rambly-yet-passionate one instead. 😓
I keep saying this but… UI developers, please remember that the scrollbar isn’t only a visual indicator but a draggable, interactive control.
Don’t hide it with no easy way to reveal it. And please don’t make it so thin that it’s unduly difficult to click (yes some ppl use scrollbars this way).
Don’t assume a scroll wheel/ball/gesture is 100% available or accessible to the user.
How many frontend engineers does it take to make an icon link in Vuetify? Turns out it’s 5.
I shouldn’t be surprised, but it’s amazing how much nicer RSS feeds and a Mastodon account is than mindlessly scrolling Twitter.
I see the light at the end of the tunnel…
Got a nice little planet avatar from @heyheymomo! Using for my omg.lol Discord avatar.
Currently lost somewhere deep down in a recursive Vue component hell.