Seriously! I didn't realise how much I used this feature because I've found myself missing it on my 2021 MBP multiple times :(

I had a 2016 MBP for a while and never noticed it once. Interesting how we all get set in particular set of usage patterns. I might have liked it more if I'd ever even noticed that. Maybe it wasn't something that was as exposed in 2016?

It's a Safari-only feature, so it's possible you never noticed it if you used Chrome

Thanks. Strange. I did use safari quite a bit (still do - better battery life) but still don't remember it.

Realisation: you could do this with any modern touchpad.

Realisation 2: you could trap scroll events and implement the whole thing in-browser.

...hmmmm, interesting...

Is that actually true for all videos?

Lots of sites that refuse to use standard video embedding, and my intuition says those would block the scrubber.

I've never seen it not work. It even works for embedded audio, like alert beeps. I'm sure YouTube had some way to stop you using it on ads, but I block those anyway.

Fascinating!

Makes me want to dig in and reverse engineer it