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Comment by rememberlenny | Hacker News Reader

If you haven't noticed, the New Yorker also redesigned their top navigation. It's a brilliant design from https://twitter.com/mimicdecipher and implemented by https://twitter.com/erik_erikson

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That "brilliant design" is permanently wasting 15% of the screen real-estate on showing buttons irrelevant to reading the article. (Why is it pinned??)

I HATE those navigation bars (especially when I read in landscape mode on my mobile) and I wish there would be some kind of "ad-blocker" to get rid of them.

I hate them 'em enough to had made a bookmarketlet to zap 'em.

https://github.com/revpriest/unfix

Thx for the link!

I find these sticky top navs extremely annoying. I like to have the entire screen for reading, rather than partially obscured by an unnecessary header, I'm quite capable of going back to the top of the page if I need the nav thank you.

My laptop noticed, and started its fan singing in praise.

Had to go into reader mode to pull Firefox down from 50% CPU.

Maybe that's a Firefox bug? Not having to redraw a section of the screen should consume less CPU, not more.

If it's done wrong, it may reposition itself every millisecond while you scroll, which could make it a pain for your browser's performance.

I'm with the others in that I don't like fixed content (particularly in landscape mode on phones), but I have seen a variation that works better; hide the nav when the user scrolls down, show it when the user scrolls back up. Safari on iphone does a similar thing with the back/forward buttons.

I hate most implementations of those more than fixed bars, I regularly scroll slightly too far when I take a second longer to read a line than I was expecting and need to scroll back to see what I missed; then out of nowhere a massive header pops down and covers both what I was trying to read and the next 3 lines so I have to scroll back even further and any flow state is completely interrupted.

Safari on iPhone is one of the few implementations that actually works well, playing round with it a bit now it looks like it has quite a few heuristics to determine when to expand again. I guess most people don't care enough to actually spend the time adding more than just "show on drag down".

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