Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
by TecoAndJix on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:18AM
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I love the progress bar at the top of that page. It is a better gauge of the required time commitment than the "7 minute read" or by glancing at the scrollbar block size, IMO.
It is a good idea but not an original one: what it's really doing is reinventing the vertical scrollbar, but placing it horizontally, with a bunch of the functionality missing.
I usually use my element blocker to hide these things. They animate while I try to read and it's very distracting.
Which browsing contexts still feature the affordance of scrollbar blocksize? I thought UX as a profession had chosen to totally commit to the sin of removing it.
Scrollbar blocksize wouldn’t usually be useful for estimating content length anyway because of comment sections.
Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
by madeofpalk on Thursday June 09, 2022 @10:55AM
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You mean like a constantly visible scroll bar? Like any windows PC? Or Mac if you enable it?
UX is not a monolith
Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
by Angostura on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:43AM
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Isn't it a shame that OS people have started making scroll bars so hard to see that someone is having to implement a less functional equivalent on-page.
Well its irrelevant because the progress bar is content only and the scrollbar includes the comment section.
I suppose you can `.content { overflow-y: scroll }`.
Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
by contravariant on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:49AM
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I'm not too fond of it, it's sacrificing 10% of the screen height to show redundant information.
Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
by doliveira on Thursday June 09, 2022 @10:35AM
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It's not really doing that, it's under the title bar.
Emacs tells you how far down you are, "3% of 80k" etc.
It's broken/not working on current Firefox though :(
Thank you goodperson!! You made my week!
Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
by LoveGracePeace on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:20AM
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Unfortunately the light on dark theme made it hard to read, I could not progress past the first page.
Required reading, “More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web”: https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/high-performance-web...
Edit:
> Developers need to use a system font stack which loads fonts from the system itself instead of remote web fonts
IMO the takeaway is "self-host fonts, make sure they're small files, load early, and don't block render," not "only use native fonts"