Comment by marssaxman
6 hours ago
I don't understand why browsers ever let designers fuck up the scrolling mechanism in the first place. Why is that even possible?
6 hours ago
I don't understand why browsers ever let designers fuck up the scrolling mechanism in the first place. Why is that even possible?
Browsers have handed way too much control to web developers. "The web as a software SDK" was a terrible idea.
My biggest annoyance: letting scripts control the history. I can imagine that someone thought "oh it'll be nice, you can use it for pages of an app". But the reality is that people are not nice and it gets used maliciously all the damn time. It should not be allowed.
The web should be a method of delivering documents exclusively, and be limited to the kinds of things you can do with other computerized documents (the basics, but also Audio, Video, Animations, hyperlinking, etc.)
I'd be okay with locking these heavily-abused features behind a "web app mode" that the user has to enable on a per-site basis. It should include a restriction forcing all content to come from the same origin, so that the browser in that mode won't make it easy for web apps to include third-party tracking or advertising.