Re:ReactOS 0.4.0 Released
by adam12 on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @10:16AM
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The scrolling seems fine to me.
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They're using kinetic/smooth scrolling, which is included in theme they're using from Okler. If you look in the JS, you'll see:
Plugin Name: smoothScroll for jQuery.
Written by: Okler Themes - (http://www.okler.net)
And here's a forum where a customer asks to disable it:http://www.okler.net/forums/topic/disable-scrolling-effect/
Another offender:
https://www.astralgameservers.com/
Inertial/kinetic scrolling is incredibly frustrating when implemented in JS. On my Mac, sure, if I swipe my fingers and let go, I expect the OS to emulate a free-spinning scroll wheel. But when it's emulated in JS, there's no way for the code to know whether I lifted my fingers, so it defaults to making the page skid around uncontrollably, when I intend to quickly swipe - while keeping my fingers down at the end - to go to a precise offset in the page.
It's visually a cute a effect, but I have no idea how anyone thinks that it makes for anything other than an utterly infuriating user experience.
There's something non-standard going on with it for me. It snaps to certain sections at the bottom and I can't swipe to navigate back and forth like I usually do.
exizt88 is correct. I can't swipe to go back a page. And if I swipe up, the page seems to want to continue scrolling at the same speed, it feels different and not fluent.