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Re:A Firefox-Only Minimap by kevingadd on Monday July 17, 2023 @09:15AM (#36757886)
It's impressive how well the minimap works for bigger articles, I clicked around randomly and ended up at https://www.stefanjudis.com/notes/should-responsive-images-w... and the minimap feels slightly magical since it appears instantly and updates synchronously if I do things like select text.

It feels kind of disappointing that I can't interact with it to scroll around like in i.e. Sublime Text, but I imagine that's a little harder to do as the author of a website. It's still very cool to me that you can do something like this on the web, and I wonder how much work it would be to support this complex CSS feature in Chrome or Safari.

Re:A Firefox-Only Minimap by taink on Monday July 17, 2023 @09:31AM (#36758029)
Weirdly enough I can't see it on this article but it's showing just fine on the OP. Maybe my extensions?
Re:A Firefox-Only Minimap by stefanjudis on Monday July 17, 2023 @09:53AM (#36758261)
Site author here: there's some logic to only show the minimap when there's enough screen estate and it generally fits.

Couldn't be bothered to scrolling/dragging logic. :D

Re:A Firefox-Only Minimap by oneeyedpigeon on Monday July 17, 2023 @10:14AM (#36758500)
It should definitely take a responsive design into account, I think. The beauty is that most sites, on desktop at least, should be able to benefit — we all have plenty of horizontal real-estate to spare!