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Do you really think discouraging enthusiastic designers and developers from building innovative things that push the boundaries of what's possible with browsers is the way forward?

... for the sake of preserving the status quo of default scrollbars, no less?

Come on.

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Yes. The same way I would discourage an enthusiastic designer from building a car with the brake pedal on the right and the gas on the left.

The idea might be good -- most people are right-handed and might have better response times with their right leg when it's straighter. But there's too much inertia in the current convention, and the change can't be made incrementally without creating serious risks.

In my years as a Flash developer, I built many custom scrollbars: each more painstaking than the last. Why build something guaranteed to be lower in quality than something else that's been in place for years? Let the professionals innovate.

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