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Comment by lelandfe | Hacker News Reader

Use font-display, people.

Required reading, “More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web”: https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/high-performance-web...

Edit:

> Developers need to use a system font stack which loads fonts from the system itself instead of remote web fonts

IMO the takeaway is "self-host fonts, make sure they're small files, load early, and don't block render," not "only use native fonts"

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I love the progress bar at the top of that page. It is a better gauge of the required time commitment than the "7 minute read" or by glancing at the scrollbar block size, IMO.

Which browsing contexts still feature the affordance of scrollbar blocksize? I thought UX as a profession had chosen to totally commit to the sin of removing it.

UX is not a monolith

You mean like a constantly visible scroll bar? Like any windows PC? Or Mac if you enable it?

Scrollbar blocksize wouldn’t usually be useful for estimating content length anyway because of comment sections.

I'm not too fond of it, it's sacrificing 10% of the screen height to show redundant information.

It's not really doing that, it's under the title bar.

It's broken/not working on current Firefox though :(

I usually use my element blocker to hide these things. They animate while I try to read and it's very distracting.

It is a good idea but not an original one: what it's really doing is reinventing the vertical scrollbar, but placing it horizontally, with a bunch of the functionality missing.

Isn't it a shame that OS people have started making scroll bars so hard to see that someone is having to implement a less functional equivalent on-page.

Well its irrelevant because the progress bar is content only and the scrollbar includes the comment section.

I suppose you can `.content { overflow-y: scroll }`.

Emacs tells you how far down you are, "3% of 80k" etc.

Thank you goodperson!! You made my week!

Unfortunately the light on dark theme made it hard to read, I could not progress past the first page.

Just use Dark Reader.

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