[madeofpalk]

I think the article does a pretty good job of explaining the gap between what can happen easily, and what a 110% over engineered "perfect" solution is to a UX problem.

Building excellent user interfaces is hard, regardless of the technical stack. You have to sweat a lot of the finer details, break out of any platform default behaviour where appropriate, and over engineer something in service of building a 'delightful' user experience.

Or, you can do as most do, and just not do this. #anchor-links with `scroll-behavior: smooth;` CSS will get you the basic smooth scrolling.

[maccard]

The really hard part of that is that if you can’t build an excellent interface, you will build a worse one than if you used the native interface. So you either need to be prepared to sweat every last detail forever.

[DavidVoid]

Using #anchor-links that show up in the URL (but not the browser navigation history) should really be the UX baseline for acceptable anchor link implementations. I hate it when long pages don't allow you to actually link specific sections.