Nice. This may be my pet peeve on the modern internet. Nearly EVERY site has a dick bar, and the reason I care is it breaks scrolling with spacebar, which is THE most comfortable way to read long content, it scrolls you a screen at a time. But a dickbar obscures the first 1 to…10? lines of the content, so you have to scroll back up. The only thing worse than the dickbar is the dickbar that appears and disappears depending on last direction scrolled, so that each move of the scrolling mechanism changes the viewport size. A pox on them all.
> Nearly EVERY site has a dick bar, and the reason I care is
that when reading on my laptop screen, it takes up valuable vertical space on a small display that is in landscape mode. I want to use my screen's real estate to read the freaking content, not look at your stupid branding bar.
And I don't need any on-page assistance to jump back to the top of the page and/or find the navigation. I have a "Home" key on my keyboard and use it frequently.
TBF, many people don't have that Home key. I agree with you, though - there should be a better solution. At the very least, just have an optional "Top of page" toolbar button in your browser.
On Android I think the typical interaction if to "fling" the page downward which will rapidly scroll until you crash into the top. Seems adequate for all but the longest pages.
I often scroll with the space bar instead of more modern contrivances like arrow keys, scroll wheels, trackpoints, or trackpads. Sites with these header bars always seem to scroll the entire viewport y size instead of (y - bar_height), so after I hit space I have to up-arrow some number of times to see the next line of text that should be visible but is hidden under the bar.
