A scrollbar is (also) an indication, glanceable, not requiring any action.
If someone among your friends and family has an iOS device, remember how many times you had to show them that certain screens can be scrolled down? Oh, not just down, but also to the right? There used to be a few perfectly aligned views that had no indication whatsoever that there's more to them is you scroll.
Narrow but visible scrollbars would solve this easily.
> If someone among your friends and family has an iOS device, remember how many times you had to show them that certain screens can be scrolled down?
I don't know, zero? Maybe let's say once to be charitable.
This is not a real problem faced by most people. IMO, this is just people being used to doing it another way.
- scrollbars overlaying the content, rather than having dedicated space
- scrollbars that auto-hide when not in use
- scrollbars that are initially narrow, then widen when you mouse-over
- removal of the scroll buttons
That's not including the visual design changes, which are arguably important too (e.g. the scroll "thumb" now has a very flat design rather than textured so it looks draggable).
Edit to add: oh yeah, one more I forgot: in classic Mac OS the scroll thumb had a fixed size, now it reflects the size of the viewport. That one is a useful and positive change, though. Not sure where that innovation came from but it wasn't the Mac.
I agree the proportional scrollbar was good.
You cannot restore the scroll bar width or buttons.
Frankly, it's broken behavior.
How do you do that glancing at an always visible scroll bar?