Scrolling :-(

[jeremyroberts]

Why is the VSL site the only site on the entire internet that has to re-invent page scrolling?

Suggesting to use the "2-finger scroll" (someone suggested this in another post) is bullsh*t -- I use a keyboard for navigation. Page Down should ALWAYS page down. Period. Common UI experience for the user.

You can use something like this for your page container:

/* page container */

#page-container {

min-height: 100%;

position: relative;

width: 1000px;

margin: 0px auto;

}

If you use a css container instead of whatever technology you are using (I didn't look) your site can scroll using pageup and pagedown in any browser. There is NO NEED to reinvent the wheel! Please fix this!

[cm]

thanks for your comment, though i can assure you it is neither the only site on the internet nor has it re-invented anything - scrolling css layers is implemented in safari for iphone (and ipod) by design as 2-finger scroll ....

 

if you have a closer look into the css used you will immediately notice your suggested solution wouldn't work at all - however please feel free to email marketing [at] vsl [dot] co [dot] at and encourage them to loose the fixed footer in a future version of the website.

 

take care, christian

[jeremyroberts]

Hi Christian,

I said I didn't look very far, but of course, it is the fixed footer that is forcing the site to not scroll with keyboard commands.

There is a possible workaround using js -- but it's a kludge, and definitely clunky -- if after a pageload, the page would bring focus to the main content, then pageup/pagedown commands will work. Not pretty, but functional.

I think the fixed footer is a terrible waste of screen real estate.

Jeremy

[jeremyroberts]

PS: http://news.cnet.com/ has a fixed footer, and does not require any clicking in the main area to enable pageup/pagedown key page scrolling. It can be done. A good web designer should know how to do this. I am not one, but I play one on TV.

[cm]

thanks for your research - unfortunately cnet has though a fixed footer no fixed header ... as well as 148 errors and 29 warnings when parsing the code :-/

but your suspicion might be correct - the forum has not the best webdesign one could think of ...