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by jsharf 1308 days ago
I think there's a lot of hate in the comments, and while I agree (stop hijacking my scrollbar), I'd like to inject some constructive positivity:

1. They put the disclaimer right in their motto. Get smooth or die trying. They're willing to accept failure in pursuit of peak smoothness.

2. Hate it as much as you want, ever since the awful idea was born, we haven't been able to prevent websites from doing this. Some implementations are better than others, and having standardization will help improve the state of the web for all websites that make this... terrible... decision. Their implementation happens to be quite nice.

3. Even if there's issues with the implementation, having a standard library means that when updates get applied, they apply to all websites that use them.