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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 56 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

Unless the user is actively navigating, the header is dead weight. The header should hide on scrollDown and reveal on scrollUp. Let the content breathe.

This one I actually hate. Often I just want to scroll up a few pixels, either to satisfy a mild compulsion or to align the content so I can see most of it. This is completely ruined if the navbar pops back in. Leave it at the top of the page, where it belongs, not at the top of the viewport!

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

The iOS browser has always supported “tap the top of the viewport to scroll all the way up,” which largely allows for what you say: just leave the nav way up there. Last time I looked was years ago, and Android Chrome didn’t did this. Does it now?

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 15 points 7 hours ago

It really depends on the site for me.

What I really hate is a table that's multiple scrolls long where the header row doesn't follow.

[–] new_world_odor@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

I feel your pain. The really good ones plan for this, some pop up immediately when you scroll up and that sucks. The proper thing to do (imo) is to wait for the user to scroll 80% of the viewport back up, only then letting it begin to slide in, and have it slide in at a rate 1/2 of the page scroll. I do like having it easily available, but it should feel like it's trying to stay out of the way.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I have this usercss:

[data-testid="header"],
[data-mobile-fixed="1"],
[data-remove-fixed="0"] {
  position: absolute !important;
  width: 100%;
}
main { padding-top: 2rem !important; }

Works well enough on most sites. And on those it doesn't, you can easily exclude.

Can likely be expanded, but adding just header broke more than it fixed.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago

At the same time, it needs to be comfortably thin.