Jens Oliver MeiertIf you’re in the mood for anything related to… scrolling today, check out @frontenddogma’s archives 📜
N-gated Hacker News🚀 Wow, folks, an "exciting" new browser library that magically measures paragraph heights without touching the DOM! 🎩✨ Because, clearly, the world was crying out for more efficient text rendering effects while we all wait for Web 3.0 to reinvent #scrollbars. 🙄
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/29/pretext/ #excitingbrowserlibrary #textmeasuring #webdevelopment #Web3 #HackerNews #ngated
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/29/pretext/ #excitingbrowserlibrary #textmeasuring #webdevelopment #Web3 #HackerNews #ngated
R.L. Dane 
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Yes, dear God, yes. The modern #ScrollBars are another huge gripe of mine.
KDE Plasma's default scrollbars are just serviceable enough, and I've figured out how to force usable scrollbars on #Firefox and #Thunderbird (can share, if you like).
Why the fork do scrollbars on my desktop (which I use with a MOUSE) have to look just like they do in iOS (which aren't exactly USABLE to begin with)?
Who the flip is making these decisions? Can I get their name and address so I can deliver a badly needed #wedgie?!? XD
tatiana 
psa : under the gnome DE, the setting to make scrollbars persistent now is under settings -> accessibility -> seeing -> always show scrollbars. this is what works for me today under gnome 48.
there are tons of other things on the internet of varying ages — change gnome settings, change dbus settings, hack a variable into the environment, sacrifice a tech bro
Cegorachregarding #scrollbars…
I kinda get why you'd design ridicilously tiny, vertical scrollbars? I mean… not really, but yes, they aren't the primary interface for people to scroll, but more of some indicator now?
but…
HORIZONTAL SCROLLBARS?
Why would you make those ridicilously tiny too? It's not like there were dual scroll wheels on mice nowadays?
Most people don't have one of those 90s "a4tech" "4d mouse" thingies? Those kinda died out? (and they were stupid to begin with, because both wheels were oriented vertically)
Yes, you shouldn't have people scrolling in both directions… but IF you have and thus show that interface element, then making it unclickable small doesn't make ANYTHING better?
(and since both should look alike, maybe just have visible scrollbars and be done with it! but that's just like my opinion man?"
I kinda get why you'd design ridicilously tiny, vertical scrollbars? I mean… not really, but yes, they aren't the primary interface for people to scroll, but more of some indicator now?
but…
HORIZONTAL SCROLLBARS?
Why would you make those ridicilously tiny too? It's not like there were dual scroll wheels on mice nowadays?
Most people don't have one of those 90s "a4tech" "4d mouse" thingies? Those kinda died out? (and they were stupid to begin with, because both wheels were oriented vertically)
Yes, you shouldn't have people scrolling in both directions… but IF you have and thus show that interface element, then making it unclickable small doesn't make ANYTHING better?
(and since both should look alike, maybe just have visible scrollbars and be done with it! but that's just like my opinion man?"
steve
Buridan's procrastinator ⁂I once found a thread where the the #scrollbars issue was mentioned.
It was a very popular thread. 'nuff said
Radio Azureus@3rz @RadioAzureus @rl_dane
Things may have changed a bit. I ducked the string Amiga MUI, was pointed to the still functioning MUI site. Dug from there for famous MUI applications and then got to one nice one
AmIRC
https://www.amirc.org/screenshots
I've included copies of the screenshots for our convenience
As you can see the scroll bars are properly formatted in MUI
#MUI #Amiga #UI #scrollbars #programming #RetroComputing #RetroProgramming
GartenpoetTWEAK: Schön langsam verkümmern die Scrollbalken in den Browsern und Anwendungen von Windows zu schier unsichtbaren schmalen Strichen 🤦 – das kommt dabei raus, wenn man DesignerInnen an Userinterfaces rumpfuschen lässt
🛠️ Eine Kombination aus Firefox- und Windows-Einstellungen liefert die Lösung
Scrollbars are slowly shrinking into barely visible lines across browsers and Windows apps - a solution
#Firefox #Windows11 #Usability #UIFail #Scrollbars #Barrierefreiheit #accessibility
ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ#Mastodon #Question :
Is there a way to stop the scroll bars (both vertical and horizontal) from vanishing when the mouse is moved away from them?! It seems idiotic that you have to close in on the bar slowly to wake it up and be able to see where the actual 'scroll cursor' is to grab it in order to make a fine adjustment. It's not like they would take up any extra space if they were visible all the time.
#ScrollBars
Is there a way to stop the scroll bars (both vertical and horizontal) from vanishing when the mouse is moved away from them?! It seems idiotic that you have to close in on the bar slowly to wake it up and be able to see where the actual 'scroll cursor' is to grab it in order to make a fine adjustment. It's not like they would take up any extra space if they were visible all the time.
#ScrollBars