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Hijacking the browser's default behavior is a dick move

39 pointsby jhabdasover 4 years ago

7 comments

xellisxover 4 years ago
Yeah, I expect my browser to go backwards when I click back to another site, not be directed to another page on that domain. Also Pinterest hijacks the share function finch of Chrome on Android and will share a link to a main page of sorts.
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Lammyover 4 years ago
See also: sites that bind the forward-slash (/) key to their own search box instead of letting it fall through to the standard browser Find In Page behavior.
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phkahlerover 4 years ago
Making the browser behavior accessible to web sites is a design error.
nej_simonover 4 years ago
The committer is confusing two different things here.<p>If you edit your browser setting regarding smooth scrolling you set what happens when you scroll on your input device, i.e. touchpad, mouse wheel or whatever.<p>If you as a website developer set the `scroll-behaviour` css property you control what happens when the browser changes scroll position for ex. if you programatically change the focus.
jackewiehoseover 4 years ago
I just had to reinstall Firefox Mobile (clearing all settings) and then I wasn&#x27;t able to zoom on a lot of websites. Fortunately FF has an option for that but I wonder why there needs to be such an option. Why would a website-maker decide it&#x27;s better when I&#x27;m not able to zoom on their website and why can they do that at all?
daenzover 4 years ago
This is flamebait.
nickthemagicmanover 4 years ago
Would an SPA be considered hijacking the fundamental nature of what the web was intended to be?
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