[LINK] Kill sticky headers: make your browsing easier

Rick Welykochy rick at vitendo.ca
Wed May 29 05:28:02 AEST 2019


Thanks for the heads up. I say death to sticky headers

The "bookmark" on this page is a clever piece of Javascript that removes the
fixed (sticky) headers. Works a treat.

-rickw


Kim Holburn wrote:
> https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
>
>> Why sticky headers annoy me
>>
>> I use an 11" MacBook Air, which means that I don't have much vertical screen space. The 50 pixels taken up by the sticky header could have been three lines of text.
>>
>> I also normally scroll down using the space key, which scrolls just less than one full viewport at a time. When you cover up part of your content with a sticky element, that means that the space key scrolls too far down. Then I lose my position and have to scroll back up.
>>
>> Finally, I just don't care right now about navigating your website, or following you on Twitter. I'm trying to read. Let me focus on that for now, please.
>


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