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Parts of webpages that scroll with the page

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited 2011-12-02 10:40:13 in Webspace
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
Such as the navigation/options bar and the contacts and the ads in GMail.  Or various parts of other websites I've occasionally seen.  I'm not talking overlays or backgrounds.  Those work just fine.  I'm talking about parts of a webpage that "pop out" and move with you.

Don't web designers realize that this just makes their web pages slower and more annoying to navigate?

Is it that hard for me to just press "Home" and go back to the top, or press "End" and go to the bottom?  What about hitting PgUp or PgDn repeatedly?  Is that so hard?  As long as the feature isn't awkwardly stuck in the middle of the webpage, it's already fine and you don't need to move it with me as I scroll.  And also reduce my visibility area at the same time.

Comments

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Don't web designers realize that this just makes their web pages slower and more annoying to navigate?

    Most of the time this is done in order to annoy yoou into clicking.

    faulty logic, but hey, advertisement is all about annoying the consumer into submission.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Except the features I'm talking about are often not even advertisements.  They're core parts of the page design.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-12-02 11:55:11
    You can change. You can.
    Really? Because I've only seen it in ad form. 

    Except for guitar tab sites which use page scroller in order for you to read the tab as you play, but that's kinda necessary.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Oh my goodness.

    You won't believe how much using cursor-scroll on the current version of GMail breaks the page, thanks to its trying to get stuff to follow you.

    By cursor-scroll I mean the kind where you hit the center mouse button, get a fixed directional icon, and then move your mouse away from it to scroll it in the direction your mouse cursor is relative to the fixed icon.
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