[thekashifmalik]

I swear, I don't know why people keep doing this. Are there any benefits to highjacking scrolling behavior that I don't know about?

[lelandfe]

Wayyyy back in the day, people thought they could make smooth scrolling "better," e.g. nicer easing, more responsive, etc. There is, however, no actual benefit to this, no.

[resonious]

In this case it's crazy choppy for me. My firefox updates my scroll position on this page at like 10FPS on a recent ultrabook. So definitely not a success story for "better smooth scrolling".

[EvRev]

If I had a lot of legal text that I wanted people to scroll by then this would be a good dark pattern.

[thekashifmalik]

That's at least one use-case I hadn't thought of haha.

I wonder if there are any legitimate non-dark pattern use-cases.