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Re:New tool for secret agents and the rest of us by prawks on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @10:50AM (#4910620)
Why is it that I always see this posted when talking about fixed banners? I've never had one break my page-down key? I know there's something I'm missing, what is it?
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Re:New tool for secret agents and the rest of us by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @11:20AM (#4910822)
Probably that when you page-down (eg spacebar on FF) the paging doesn't take in to account the fixed position element and so you miss out on that section of content

     1
     2
     3
    [4========]
4 is hidden by a fixed footer. When it pages up the next page is:

     5
     6
     7
    [8========]
and you've missed out on all the section 4 and 8 content.

So it's rather the facility of skipping by screenfuls of content rather than the key itself.

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Re:New tool for secret agents and the rest of us by prawks on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @02:13PM (#4911886)
Ah okay, thanks. I figured I was missing something obvious.
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