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by cassiepaper 1325 days ago
Huh. Scrolls on my Pixel mobile device. Please specify browser and OS.
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Wowfunhappy 1325 days ago
On my iPhone 13 Mini, I can scroll up and down but the text is wider than the width of the screen and I can't zoom out or even scroll horizontally.
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NobodyNada 1324 days ago
On iOS you can trick the page into scrolling horizontally by selecting some text and dragging the selection marker beyond the right edge of the screen. Still an annoying workaround though, because the page snaps back to the left as soon as you try to scroll vertically again.
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edent 1325 days ago
On Firefox for Android the page suddenly jumped halfway down when I tried to scroll. Looks like you've implemented your own scrollbar which overrides the browser?
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cassiepaper 1325 days ago
Ah, yeah, I see now. I can recreate the problem on desktop. On my mobile it works. Indeed, the scrollbar is implemented to override the browser's.

Why go to archive.ph, though, when you can go directly to https://melsloop.com/docs/mels-hack-the-missing-bits ? - should work nicely on mobile.

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forgotmypw17 1324 days ago
I use archive.xx to strip the original page of accessibility obstacles, such as modals and home-made scrolling behavior.

Though most of the time I encounter such nonsense, I just close the tab and move on. There is rarely good content behind it.

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qu4z-2 1324 days ago
Presumably because the archive.ph version is actually scrollable cross-browser (or with JS turned off).
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forgotmypw17 1325 days ago
Chrome on Android, JS off. I could not scroll down more than a couple lines of text.

On desktop, I could reproduce the same issue in both Firefox- and Chrome-derived browsers.

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