1988 has the best contrast, I like that.
1998 not only had the best scrollbar, but the best UI overall. Shoulda just stopped then and we would have utopia by now
I’d say 2001 and 2006 purely because the scrollbar is textured in a way that make it seem dragable at first glance |=|.
Which is standard by now but still, besides that 1998 has all the other visual cues to denote what’s clickable and i would otherwise agree as i generally prefer flatter designs.
I hate the modern ones you need to hover above so they even display, and then it’s 1 pixel wide and a shade of grey that’s about 2% darker than white.
Less functional and 500 lines of js garbage.It’s a few lines of css, no JS required.
.my-div:hover { overflow-x: scroll; }And the look and feel of the scrollbar is generally determined by the browser/OS. Unless someone does a custom scrollbar implementation, but that is exceedingly rare. So that thin rounded gray bar is a browser/OS design, again, without any JS.
You can style the native scrollbars with css now
Oh, interesting, that’s pretty new. Technically it’s not an official part of the W3C spec yet, but it’s close enough that browsers support it now. Though, it only allows you to control the bar color, track color (which is generally invisible nowadays, so track color changes nothing), and width. So, yes, more customization than was there before, but still extremely minimal.
I don’t know about scrollbars specifically, but apparently a lot of windows 11 is written in react
It’s the start menu that’s written in react.
And Microsoft Store. And the weather…
Ew
what
Some suck, sure, but some work well. The ones on MacOS are good IMO, and some android ones (while others absolutely suck).
I miss my big chonky scroll bars. now they hide them.
Search for “Always show scroll bars” in settings
that’d be helpful if they were wider than 5px.
I’m in my 50s with macular degeneration so seeing small things can be difficult.
Yeah they’re not great in that regard. Still, i’d expect a setting in accessibility to help with this. I’m not near a computer now but i’ll look next time
It never got better than 1998
I like how they added some grip between 2001 - 2009 so you would have some traction when you used then
My cursor kept slipping off them all the time anyway 😢
Now you can’t even find the fucking thing when you need it. Thanks, “UX design”.
UX, whatsat?
Also, it completely disappears after a second.
And why is it a different color on the addons page anyway??
Is that add-on good?
I didn’t try it yet, have this open for a while now. 😅
Supposedly, it allows to locate the searched folder, which native only recently added as a context menu.
1998 was truly the best time. When all OS widgets looked the same. And could be used in apps, and everything had a consistent look. Yeah you could override this in your app. But fuck people who did that. Everything looked so nice and uniform and you knew what to expect from a widget and its look and behavior. Get off my lawn.
That reminds me.
Haven’t whipped my llama’s ass in a while.
To me, they are just indicators of how much content I can expect. I scroll with the mouse wheel or using the page down/up keys. I don’t grab the thing. I only need to see the indicator when I am scrolling.
But I wonder whether there is a accesibility aspect to always visible and wide scrollbars. I think, the best way to deal with it, is to make it an option how they look and behave.
What about some scrollable window with something like 10k+ lines, though? Sure, if you have a mouse with a free-spinning function, it’s still doable, but a draggable scrollbar comes in handy then.
Maybe a smart way to handle that would be to show a wide scrollbar when there is so much content? Idk.
I would probably expect filters that are always visible regardless at which line I am currently. Sadly, this isn’t the case very often and I have to go back to the top and apply the filters.
Touchscreens don’t have wheels on them. Styluses/pens also don’t (usually). The latter usually acts more as a mouse than a touchscreen in software, so you can’t scroll by dragging the page.
2012? Elder? Cmon, it wasn’t that long ago… wait… no…
2009, pls.
But I guess with the end caps from 2006.
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Do you remember the feel of switching from 1998 to 2001? It felt like stepping into the future.
And then they got thinner every year while screens got wider…
But our eyes cant see more than a few pixels wide anyways!
An endangered species
I love how 1998 looks. It is clean and servers the purpose. 2001-2009 feel over designed, 1988 and 2012 not sure whether the dark part is the scroller or the light part lol.
