Now you can’t even find the fucking thing when you need it. Thanks, “UX design”.
UX, whatsat?
Also, it completely disappears after a second.
I’m partial to 2006
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We peaked in 2009
What was wrong with the high contrast of 1988?
It is at home in both light and dark mode
The issue with 1988 is that it isn’t intuitive what the background color is, and thus if the bar is up or down.
The middle years are obvious because of the 3d effect. The last one is obvious because the background is the same for both the arrows and the bar.
My only criticism is lack of affordance on the slider. Is the dark part the slider or the light part? Some of the newer ones have the little ridges for “traction”.
Now: I
We’ve gotta bring back frutiger aero.
2012? Elder? Cmon, it wasn’t that long ago… wait… no…
Definitely either 88 or 98. Large, very visible, no bullshit. I prefer 98, but would also be perfectly happy with 88. The reason I like 98 better than 88 is because 98, while not as high of contrast, is closer to if it’s physically there, with shadows and stuff, and therefore visually faster recognizable as a scroll bar, it’s more intuitive.
Give me 98 with the little lines of the next 3. I think it enhances noticeability quite a lot without adding a distracting amount of contrast
Agree. 98 with grip would be my ideal.
88, because it covers visually impaired better. That higher contrast pays off. But I remember you could do some color theming for the 98 version, so maybe it couldve been fixed in that regard. And I agree on the design being generally easier to understand.
I like how they added some grip between 2001 - 2009 so you would have some traction when you used then
My cursor kept slipping off them all the time anyway 😢
I hate the modern ones you need to hover above so they even display, and then it’s 1 pixel wide and a shade of grey that’s about 2% darker than white.
Less functional and 500 lines of js garbage.Some suck, sure, but some work well. The ones on MacOS are good IMO, and some android ones (while others absolutely suck).
It’s a few lines of css, no JS required.
.my-div:hover { overflow-x: scroll; }And the look and feel of the scrollbar is generally determined by the browser/OS. Unless someone does a custom scrollbar implementation, but that is exceedingly rare. So that thin rounded gray bar is a browser/OS design, again, without any JS.
I don’t know about scrollbars specifically, but apparently a lot of windows 11 is written in react
It’s the start menu that’s written in react.
Ew
what
1988 still the best one, somehow
agreed. no embellishment, just design that makes the functionality obvious.
Yeah, and then talentless hacks kept fucking with it for almost 40 years just for the sake of fucking with it. Enshittification marches on.
I love how 1998 looks. It is clean and servers the purpose. 2001-2009 feel over designed, 1988 and 2012 not sure whether the dark part is the scroller or the light part lol.
And then they got thinner every year while screens got wider…
But our eyes cant see more than a few pixels wide anyways!
An endangered species
1998 was truly the best time. When all OS widgets looked the same. And could be used in apps, and everything had a consistent look. Yeah you could override this in your app. But fuck people who did that. Everything looked so nice and uniform and you knew what to expect from a widget and its look and behavior. Get off my lawn.
imho the clustered version of the scroll bar buttons (like in Amiga Workbench 2.0+, Macintosh OS, macOS, KDE) make way more sense to me (minimal mouse movement to change scroll direction) than this spread out layout.
OS X Lion apparently forgot to add the scroll bar entirely
Hope somebody got fired for that epic blunder
System 1 my beloved
