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Somewhat off-topic but does anyone have a bookmarklet that would remove annoying scrolling behavior on sites like Quanta? I.e. pressing space bar should immediately scroll down a page, not do it slowly with awkward mechanics.

In exchange I'm happy to share a bookmarklet that "unsticks" sticky elements of the page (e.g. an ever-visible header like on WaPo, though they are not the worst offender): https://pastebin.com/Vh594168

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I think they're using sscroll from npm, but not entirely sure. I was able to fix it, but too well, in that now it'll scroll with unbounded speed: https://tio.run/##LY5BDsIgEEX3PcXsgKQS9wYXRpMu3HkCAlMdbYFQ2q...

This is quick and dirty but it works on this particular site:

javascript:void(addEventListener('keydown',e=>e.keyCode==32&&e.stopPropagation(),true)

...spacebar?

shouldn't "down a page" be done with PageDown?

who came up with binding this behavior to a spacebar as well??

There is no PageDown on my MacBook keyboard.

Fn-down gives you page down. Also:

Fn-up: page up

Fn-right: end

Fn-left: home

Thanks. Yeah, I forgot. Fn-up and Fn-left are particularly useful.

Someone who realized that page down is far away, space is close, and paging down is frequent

>shouldn't "down a page" be done with PageDown?

PageDown doesn't reliably exist - plenty of laptops put it behind a function-key combo, making the only action you're doing on the page a two-handed affair.

> who came up with binding this behavior to a spacebar as well??

Apparently, it comes from the `more` command[1], because they couldn't reliably assume terminals would have a PageDown key, and because spacebar was the biggest key on the keyboard so it was the obvious choice for the one action in `more`.

[1] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/53110/why-does-the-sp...

Spacebar is next page is old-as-ages terminal convention.

But it has no place in a browser.

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