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Comment by dzine | Hacker News Reader

Scrolling with the mousewheel is funky in Chrome. Hate when websites hijack the scroll event and misuse it.

Looks like someone took "mousewheel" a little too literally.

    $(document).bind('mousewheel', function(event, delta) {
        if(delta > 0) {
            upPage();
        } else {
            downPage();
        }
    });

This is the first time a product page has made me want to complain on HN about hijacking the scroll event. I just cmd+f'd for "hijack" and knew I'd find other grumblers here.

I abandoned the website in less than 20 seconds as I couldn't navigate the page below on Chrome.

Same. Awesome looking watch, but after trying to scroll up and down a few times I was like welp guess I won't be finding out more about this watch! Impossible to find out what's in the middle of the site

Me too. Which is a shame because the watch looks nice (for a smart watch). It seems like something that an adult could intentionally wear in public, unlike many of these gadgets.

While it sucks, why didn't you just try the arrow keys? Works perfectly fine.

Perhaps because there's a dozen ways to scroll a web page and we shouldn't have to try every method until we find one that works?

I'm not defending their decision, it sucks that they did it like this.

But reading the comments, people seem genuinely interested in the product but leave the page because they think it is "impossible" to navigate it? Come on..

How many ways to scroll a webpage are there anyway? Wheel/trackpad, space and key down. Are there more? Even if there is, these are the ones you'll obviously try first.

Page up/down, the scroll bar, click-and-drag to select and scroll are three more off the top of my head.

Also, in the land of UX, your "obviously" is not always everybody else's.

Fair enough, although I'd still imagine the arrow down goes before any of those for most people.

Most programmers, perhaps.

I'd actually pin that on most non-programmers. Arrow down is the most intuitive as far as I've seen. I've never seen anyone not "tech proficient" use anything else anyway.

I thought they had done a good job with scrolling because I was using the arrow keys, then I tried mousewheeling on a magic mouse and I kept flying to the top/bottom.

only if you are used to scrolling with a keyboard, most people use mouse or trackpad though

scrolling on my trackpad is whacky too. terrible experience. Have to use arrows. worst page i've ever seen

Same with Firefox and OS X. A tiny move and I am down at the bottom.

Same with Chrome!

Same on Firefox. Just using arrow keys till fad fades.

PS: Remember how magic* was praised for simplicity of home page? Yeah, we are getting there. I guess.

* http://www.getmagicnow.com

At the arrows work...

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