Scrollbar camo

17 Dec 2003

A quick web-design pet peeve: using scrollbar colors that make them nearly or completely invisible. (I think scrollbar colors is an IE-only thing?) Yeah, I know, it’s not a serious hindrance to navigating the page, but still. I don’t like it. I see it more on personal sites, but why did the otherwise venerable Arts & Letters Daily have to go and do it too?

Posted by Jeff on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 at 9:40 AM

1 Comment

I couldn’t agree more. Scrollbars are part of the OS and the browser, not part of the web content you’re viewing — so a web page should have no right to muck with it. It’d be like if the web page decided to change your desktop background and your system font. Thank goodness Macs are immune to the dreaded scrollbar camo.

Jase | December 17, 2003 1:50 PM

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