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It's a nice idea, but could it be made to be mobile friendly? For example when touch scrolling on a device the text scrolls in a choppy fashion rather than smooth with momentum.

I understand this is for desktop, but it would be nice if it could not get in the way of what div/overflow gives us for free.

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Sorry, I think I don't clearly get what you mean. Tablets normally scroll smoothly pixel-wise as long as you move the finger. In fact, dragscroll implements the similar behaviour for desktops, because I consider such behaviour as more reasonable in many cases (comparing to selecting the content of the area, I mean).

You are right about how tablets are supposed to work.

The problem is that in your examples this behavior no longer functions as expected on tablets.

The example should work well for both desktop and tablet. Your current implementation changes the normal behavior on tablets.

There probaby an bug in dragscroll then. It is not supposed to break the behaviour on tablets, will test it..

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