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IndySuntoday at 10:52 AM2 repliesview on HN

>There are a few specific situations where it can be useful

re scrollbars, Can you give an example?


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archerxtoday at 11:33 AM

An online game for example.

marcomezzavillatoday at 11:44 AM

Sure. I was thinking of fairly narrow cases, not ordinary page scrolling:

- A swipe/drag carousel with visible arrows or dots, especially a looping carousel where the native scrollbar does not represent a meaningful start and end

- An accordion or expanding panel that animates to reveal all of its content. During the transition, its intermediate height may briefly produce a scrollbar (and a visual flash), even though the fully expanded state does not need one

- Highly visual or experimental interfaces where scrolling is communicated through another control, or where the scrollable area is decorative and scrolling is not required to access the content