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by treyfitty 499 days ago
I can’t scroll on iOS safari.
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The site appears to implement a custom scrollbar with the Vuescroll package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/vuescroll

Which is nuts for a simple article page like this (and almost any other use case really). Just leave the native components as they are, especially scrolling.

Firefox on macOS is also completely borked. At least with my freescrolling Logitech Master MX 2. I'll scroll and it will jump the expected amount, I'll scroll some more and it will jump about 4-5x what I expect, and then I'll scroll some more and it will go backward in the page. The site is pretty much unusable for me.
scrolling also broken on firefox.

ridiculous.

iOS Safari seems to be behind in terms of scrollbar styling https://caniuse.com/?search=scrollbar
It appears to be using a custom JS-based scrollbar. Which is just crazy.
I would just kill the scrollbar styling if it’s breaking the site in common browsers. Styling the scrollbar is absolutely a nice-to-have—more important to have people able to read the content. Otherwise, what’s the point?
Firefox on Linux also doesn't work.
Yes it does. It just takes a while to load. No idea why this is though.
Rule 1 of web development, don’t reinvent and mess with scrolling.
And if you really need to, don't anyway.
Firefox on Android - works.