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Comment by dmix | Hacker News Reader

Google's designers have totally lost it, just try scrolling on this page without getting dizzy:

https://www.google.com/ideas/products/

The page looks so nice but then they proceed to destroy usability with bizarre navigation schemes and breaking nearly every common design pattern - scrolling is just one of them.

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For me it scrolls ridiculously slowly. And they broke the side scroll bar and arrow keys, so I have spin the mouse wheel a ton to get it to move at all.

I don't see what the point of breaking scrolling is.

In OsX + Chrome it works perfectly with the trackpad. They might have only tested this on a limited number of browsers/OSes ?

Unusable on OS X + Firefox. Definitely didn't test on other browsers.

Also unusable on Linux + Firefox.

It's broken on Windows + Firefox as well. Works fine in IE though.

In order to have automatic device compatibility we've built this whole web platform, paying huge prices along the way in speed, data size, etc, but it's all worth it because you can deploy your application instantly and everyone will be able to use it with a consistent experience across all devices and platforms.

Then they go and try to re-do something probably a dozen layers deeper than the frontend application code they used; scrolling - and will probably be surprised to learn there are compatibility problems!

Infinite scroll on five items? What the...

This is incredibly bad. My 4 year old MBA can barely support the animations and my mouse doesn't work (?).

I am astonished Google QA had nothing to complain about that.

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