scroller

The logic for the scroller bar at the bottom is fairly complex.

Text, lots of it, all of which is perfectly readable without pagination, a fancy javscript scroller, or even images.

Does Apple have some kind of patent coverage on the little trackball scroller?

In any infinite scroller you need a page height that progressively increases.

I had problems with clicking on the track to jump the scroller to a given position.

I would say that implementing custom scroller in JS is far easier (and reliable) that Flash.

My suggestion would be to create a Javascript scroller at the top of the page with suggestions for things that could be rented scrolling across the top.

Similar to scrolling to the right in a side-scroller.

Building an endless 60 FPS scroller for the web.

If you had found something that was successfully blowing out the width of the page into a side-scroller then that would be a HN bug worth reporting.

You're 100% right on the sports scroller.

I use the mousepad scroller more often for that reason.

Customizing exactly how a header bar "sticks" to the top when it hits a certain point, cannot be done with any built in browser scroller.

I know WP8 isn't that common, but should I just quietly accept that yet another developer decided to "innovate" and wrote a super sexy scroller that crashes and burns on my browser?

As I started skimming the page looking for the point where it talks about population imbalances, I had scrolled down a few pages and was asking myself "what the hell does this article have to do with population?" before realizing it's just stringing a bunch of articles together in one big scroller.

I was in fourth grade and I asked my parents for VB6, and they thoughtfully also bought me "Visual Basic for Dummies." I was quickly hooked - I especially remember writing side scroller games with it and making the image sprites with Photoshop in my school's computer lab.