scrolling inside of a scrollable page, kill me now.

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swiftouch
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scrolling inside of a scrollable page, kill me now.

Post by swiftouch »

Is it just me or are there websites cropping up all over the place where you scroll inside of a scrollable page? For example: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/ ... volcano.ap

I'm a heavy user of ModX CMS(not by choice) and by far the most annoying part of it is its heavy use of browser in browser scrolling.

The ONLY way this works is if the page is static vertically so you dont have multiple scroll bars.

I can only suggest that these people get some real web designers who actually know how to use a frame/iframe.

Is this awful design or is it just me making mountains out of molehill?
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Post by CoderGoblin »

Personally I think you are making a mountain out of a molehill. The page looks "clean" and you can find things easily. The information a user would like is easily available and understandable. They obviously don't expect people to be using dial up modems but this is a video site so that is a logical assumption. Of more concern to me is the need to use javascript. Page simply does not load without it. There is no message or anything.
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Post by swiftouch »

I guess I really dislike it based on the behavior of scrolling. ..such as when inside the frame that is scrollable, when reaching the end, the browser then scrolls the main window. I guess what i'd like to see is the behavior of the browser stop all scrolling of the main window while i'm hovered over the scrollable frame.
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