Scroll Snapping
15cousin_it
11Yair Halberstadt
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2jefftk
2jimrandomh
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4Said Achmiz
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I think messing with scroll is one of these things that even when you think it's a good idea, it isn't.
I actually find it really annoying, because if I scroll too little it snaps back to the previous picture, and too much it scrolls completely to the next one. There's no ability to get it about where I want them refine iteratively.
Also, I think there's a psychological thing where it feels nice where the UI feels like it reacts smoothly to what you do like a physical tool would. This breaks your control of the UI, snapping you out of this illusion, which is unpleasant.
1Tried it. Hated it. If I scroll a little bit with a momentum-scrolling touchpad, then when it settles, it will sometimes move back to where it was, undoing my scroll. The second issue is that if I scroll with spacebar or pgup/pgdn, the animation is very slow (about 10x slower than it is for me on most pages).
I think there could be a version of this that's good, where it subtly biases the deceleration curve of fling-scrolls to reach a good stopping point, but leaves every other scroll method alone. But this isn't it.
Thanks! I played around with this and was able to get the same behavior, though it doesn't happen with how I normally use the touchpad.
I think what I would want here is something where scroll-snap never undoes scrolling, and is generally lighter touch? Like, snapping to the target if you've made an ambiguous flick, but not fighting you.
The problem with this setting is that when I press the down arrow key, it scrolls the page by either a little bit (as normal) or a whole picture’s height, and it seems basically random which it does for any given down-arrow keypress. This is bad.