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The first one you linked messes up with my scrolling and makes is incredibly slow, I have to use the thin scrollbar on the rights side due to that...

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It was terrible under Firefox on my Surface Book, so out of curiosity I then tried it on Edge: scrolling doesn’t work at all on the touchpad or touchscreen (the arrow keys, Space, Shift+Space, Home and End don’t work in any browser). The scrollbar is the only thing that allows you to navigate down the page.

Disabling JavaScript (or if you are a NoScript user) usually 'fixes' the scroll override annoyances but try going to about:config and toggling layout.css.scroll-behavior.enabled to 'false' as well.

I started noticing some sites were hijacking scroll despite having them blocked by NoScript, however the above config change fixed that instantly. Turns out scroll can be hijacked by CSS now, not just JavaScript. Progress!

Nice. Unfortunately, that configuration option doesn't exist in Pale Moon.

Did you mean worrydream or my personal website? If you mean mine, sorry for the scroll-jacking! It's been a few years since I've touched the input handling code and that kind of stuff tends to rust really fast. Might have to go back in there.

Talking about worrydream.com

Yeah, I'm in Chrome on Windows and a full spin of the scroll wheel moves it down about 5 pixels.

Given how much thought he puts into user experience in his projects, that's really weird. I have to scroll with click and drag and sort of "throw" the page upward as if I'm using a touchscreen.

That is really weird. I'm using Chrome on Windows too, and my scroll wheel works normally on the site. I wonder what is causing the different behaviors we're seeing.

It works sorta-fine in Firefox. I say "sorta" because it overrides the browser's smooth scrolling to move in jerky steps on every click of the wheel, but at least it moves useably fast.

To hazard a guess, the testing environment was a Mac with trackpad scrolling. Each scrolling step on that would be small enough that "teleport to next scroll position" looks smooth, and breaking the built-in smooth scrolling wouldn't be noticeable.

I do wish people would stop trying to reimplement scrolling and just let the OS/browser do it...

FWIW I'm in Chrome 54 on Windows 7.

In Swedish there is an expression "The smith's horse and the shoemakers children are worst shod" that comes to mind.

It's kind of when fashion designers wears an ill fitting t-shirt and jeans I guess.

On my iPhone it works perfectly.

Same, I think it's on purpose.

Why would someone purposefully make navigation of their site significantly worse than the default?

I've seen slower scrolling done to improve the "mouth feel" of the website. It's usually a designer wanting to do it without considering the full ramifications of their whimsy.

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