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Was it really necessary to implement your own scrollbar? It's absurdly slow (and therefore annoying) on Firefox/Conkeror, and seems entirely redundant when the browser handles scrolling perfectly fine.

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don't mess with the scroll bar!!

I thought it was just broken for the scroll wheel on the mouse, and therefore if you had a fancy apple trackpad you could swipe easily and quickly through the content.

Also, it seems to break swipe-left/right-to-nagivate-back/forward in Chrome and Safari. I was sure my touchpad was broken or something.

I have a weird issue in Chrome where setting the video volume causes the page to scroll down until only the lower half of the video was visible. I am unable to scroll back up and have to refresh the page.

Experiencing the same issue... But boy is that scroll bar pretty /s

Exactly. I was about to post the same comment.

No advantages over the browser scrollbar, only some extra problems for the developer and the viewers.

I agree. All I saw was a "Blast! This video can’t be played with your current setup." message, and thought that was it. Up/down cursors and scrollwheel don't work. I just started clicking on elements randomly to see why on Earth this might have been upvoted. Eventually I somehow triggered the scrollbar to move down and saw that there was some text to read!

For those who, like me, couldn't see the video, you might have more luck via its Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/126664436

The ViewTube FF plugin worked for me.

Also the home and end buttons on the keyboard don't work.

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