[alansaber]

Why can't technical people appreciate that us, the silent majority, love having our scroll hijacked? I can't remember the last time I used a scroll bar to navigate a website, but using it to navigate between choppy javascript keyframes fills me with joy.

[lelandfe]

This isn’t scroll hijacking

You can scroll normally, with all your favorite keys, or go super fast to the bottom

It’s just scroll animations. Bad ones, admittedly.

[mrandish]

> just scroll animations. Bad ones

Scroll animations, post-grid floating voids, bouncy house dampening, hyper rounded... everything. These are the 50s Chevy fins of today.

I've enjoyed working with some great designers over the years, Stanford D-School and even wild-raised. All the good ones intuitively steered clear of trends destined to be era-stamp tropes. They'd say, "I can already hear the ghosts of design-future mocking me: 'That's so early-AI' and 'Yo, the mid-20s called and wants their bento grid back.'"

[1shooner]

>trends destined to be era-stamp tropes

This page was designed for today, for making it to HN, not 'the ghosts of design-future'.

[cj]

> You can scroll normally

Except you can’t.

I scroll down, and the content of the page doesn’t move as expected.

[ProllyInfamous]

Just use your page_up/page_down keys, and you can skip all the stupid/excessive scrolling requirements.

[janderson215]

Now that iPhone has switched to USB-C, I can plug in my Apple Extended Keyboard directly without needing a dongle. It’s like magic.

[wpm]

The real question is does the power button on the AEK still work on iOS?

[ProllyInfamous]

You have to also hold down `ctrl` [+power], but yes.

[arethuza]

I now have visions of an Apple Extended Extended Keyboard that comes with a crank...

[DrewADesign]

It’s nothing new. In fact, many of the comments on this site were made by keyboards with cranks.

Er… I meant to say cranks with keyboards. Sorry. It was a rough weekend.

[TurkTurkleton]

Not even an ADB-to-USB dongle?

[ProllyInfamous]

Thirty years ago, Apple made a translucent green ADB "keypad" which had a small LCD display (perhaps only two lines of text?) – marketed towards academics, it allowed students to learn touch-typing without the distractions of an entire computer.

Once you were happy with your touch-typed document, you then plugged the "keypad" directly into your Mac's ADB (keyboard/mouse) port... and the thing would sit there and manually re-type your composition into the computer's texteditor.

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Education needs such "reduced tech" to return to teaching. Think of this one as a "more advanced typewriter" – although I own a few of those, too, and they're fantastic for pure composition.

[Natfan]

how do i press these buttons on my android phone?

[Joe_Cool]

Connect Keyboard, Press PgDn.

Or what I actually use for ssh on the road: https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard

Google kicked it from their store because it still supports older Androids but it still works just fine on the latest versions. It's on F-Droid.

[ProllyInfamous]

Is there really no PgDn on a phone?!?

I don't use them, but that is surprising! I would program one of my theoretical phone's physical side buttons to handle PgDn/PgUp [†] – similar to my old Kindle's layout. Do phones still have side volume buttons (e.g.)?

[†] Thanks for the better styling, than my former Page_Up &c

[butlike]

If they're not scroll hijacking, then we're just jacking it ourselves. Think about it.

Thanks, web designers <3

[lukan]

"love having our scroll hijacked? "

You are the silent majority?

No doubt non technical people have different UX experience than tech nerd, but I have seen plenty of "normal" people curse at artsy fluffy design, that made known navigation skills useless and nobody likes their time wasted.

[latexr]

Pretty sure your parent comment was being sarcastic. Why else would they write “choppy javascript keyframes fills me with joy”?

[lukan]

Well, I missed that word, but my irony/sarcasm detector has lately been a bit uncalibrated by the current zeitgeist.

[psygn89]

The "choppy" JS keyframes helps give it a cinematic and authentic feel. /s