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Comment by angry-hacker | Hacker News Reader

I like the screenshots but I don't understand the navigation of the page and why would you hijack the default scrollbar of your browser?

I'm surprised that so apps look WP metro style

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By "hijack the default scrollbar", you mean "apply standard webkit scrollbar CSS properties"?

The page is going off the right edge of my browser, and I can find no way to scroll see it. Call it what you want.

There's a horizontal scrollbar per photoset just below the photo's.

I'm guessing this was designed by someone with a multitouch trackpad. I know I tend to forget not everyone else has 2 finger scroll at their fingertips, I've had to get into a habit of having a test run using a mouse when I put together pages.

I see them now. I missed them because they don't look like scroll bars. I don't even know what 2 finger scroll is. I usually scroll with my mouse wheel. To scroll horizontally, I click the middle mouse button. These scroll bars seem not to support that.

I only found them after I went looking because of your comment. Seems weird not just to have the single horizontal scroll at the bottom, it's too fiddly.

Those of us using multitouch trackpads can scroll by just swiping on the page using N fingers, like scrolling on a touch phone by dragging the page with your finger.

You can also make the screenshots smaller if you look at the sidebar on the left.

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