Custom Scrollbars in WebKit

No, not again. I hoped that the custom scroll bars idea died in 1999...

Its fairly predictable that the reaction to these would be "ugh browsers shouldnt let people do that" but the web is growing up and it is not purely a document delivery platform anymore, there are a lot of cases when a large scrollbar takes up valuable space within a small pane within an applications.<p>now along the same lines, when are we gonna get clipboard access

On regular websites, if done poorly custom scrollbars are not only useless but a major distraction. I like the idea when working on web apps, though. Most native apps take on a custom style (e.g. iTunes), and it's nice to mimic this and give the user a sense of working within a native application. Guess it's just preference though.

I often scroll down using space or the pagedown key. This has worked with every webpage I've encountered so far.<p>While I don't care about the styling, every single linked example on that page doesn't work with space or the pagedown key. I wish there was a bit more polish here...

Ugh, custom scrollbars.<p>If you're going to do it (but please, don't), do it like this. Not with some crummy Flash applet. I'm talking to you, Vimeo.

As long as it merely "skins" the toolbar and doesn't try to override the browser scrolling function, like this terrible, terrible WordPress iPad theme which scrolls through javascript, making it ridiculously jerky and just weird... We're already "skinning" input elements with CSS which by default would look native to the OS, so that makes sense.<p>The web has grown up since IE5 (where you could merely <i>color</i> the scrollbar) and graphic designers will design some proper ones fitting with the whole site design, while a bad scrollbar design will just be an element of an equally bad site otherwise.

I was forced (by the client) to use custom scrollbars for a project about a year ago. Ended up using jscrollpane, a jquery plugin. This seems like a better solution.

KILL IT!