Intence – a new UX concept supposed to replace the scrollbar

https://news.layervault.com/stories/46773-intence---the-scro...

Now what do hackers think? Should scrolling indicator necessarily provide the way to control the scrolling position, or can these issues be solved by different widgets? Is this way of indication far too distracting, or does it probably depend on the designer's choice of a texture for the indicator? Is this really a small UX revolution, or just another useless experiment which will soon fall into oblivion?

Scrolling is not an element of the web page, it's an element of the computer. If it's unique to every page, it's jarring and taxing to have to re-learn every website. Some sites use black backgrounds. Textareas use scrollbars too.

The reason scrollbars work is because they look the same consistently for each individual platform. You don't have to learn a new scrollbar for every page (although some break this pattern anyway). When they're the same, it's less mentally to parse for each page load so that the user can focus on what's really important: the content.