Elder scrolls

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 use pgdn btw.

Some suck, sure, but some work well. The ones on MacOS are good IMO, and some android ones (while others absolutely suck).

That reminds me.

Haven't whipped my llama's ass in a while.

My cursor kept slipping off them all the time anyway 😢

UX, whatsat?

Also, it completely disappears after a second.

And why is it a different color on the addons page anyway??

OS X Lion apparently forgot to add the scroll bar entirely

System 1 my beloved

I'd say 2001 and 2006 purely because the scrollbar is textured in a way that make it seem dragable at first glance |=|.

Which is standard by now but still, besides that 1998 has all the other visual cues to denote what's clickable and i would otherwise agree as i generally prefer flatter designs.

But our eyes cant see more than a few pixels wide anyways!

An endangered species

Honestly I’m partial to it as well. Possibly for the same reasons, but also because the bar and buttons are clearly defined and have good contrast. The later designs begin to fade out until now the scroll bar is just a thin line, which is sometimes hidden, so you don’t see it unless you’re looking for it.

Story of our society right there

What about some scrollable window with something like 10k+ lines, though? Sure, if you have a mouse with a free-spinning function, it's still doable, but a draggable scrollbar comes in handy then.

Touchscreens don't have wheels on them. Styluses/pens also don't (usually). The latter usually acts more as a mouse than a touchscreen in software, so you can't scroll by dragging the page.

Search for "Always show scroll bars" in settings

What was wrong with the high contrast of 1988?

It is at home in both light and dark mode

And pauses for 30 seconds over each ad.

From next year the government will be allowed to scroll for you if they deem it in the interest of national security

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

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.

agreed. no embellishment, just design that makes the functionality obvious.

Seems like it’s coming back

1988 was just peak ui design