Hijacking the browser's default behavior is a dick move

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.

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.

Making the browser behavior accessible to web sites is a design error.

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.

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?

This is flamebait.

Would an SPA be considered hijacking the fundamental nature of what the web was intended to be?