Re:Scrollbar Blindness
by mmphosis on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:10PM
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Scroll bars have always been a compromise. Today, I have a 4K monitor connected to a 2K laptop with a USB-C port for yet another big monitor or more. I can span a window across 3 big monitors, and still the horizontal scroll bar appears because of the platform agnostic attitude of "good enough."
Up until Android and iOS mostly phones and tablets, we had a monoculture Intel and Windows. Windows is still almost 90% of actual laptop/desktop users. [1]
I am an ex-Mac developer. I do not have a modern Mac, I do not have an iPhone, and I set the date/time format to pretty much whatever I want on Linux, Windows, and 15 year old Mac OS X. And, I just have to deal with broken date/time interfaces on the web. For far too long, I would go along with the Intel / Windows developer monoculture of "good enough" software, and comments like Mac? Linux? What's that?
Up until Android and iOS mostly phones and tablets, we had a monoculture Intel and Windows. Windows is still almost 90% of actual laptop/desktop users. [1]
I am an ex-Mac developer. I do not have a modern Mac, I do not have an iPhone, and I set the date/time format to pretty much whatever I want on Linux, Windows, and 15 year old Mac OS X. And, I just have to deal with broken date/time interfaces on the web. For far too long, I would go along with the Intel / Windows developer monoculture of "good enough" software, and comments like Mac? Linux? What's that?
[1] https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...