On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 04:17:52PM +0530, Arnav Sonara wrote:
Well a number of sites have been doing this a lot
lately, the position of the
top bar or <div id = "header_outer"> in
wikihow.com is *fixed* so even
after
reading the last line of article one does not need to scroll back up. The top
bar provides certain functionality easily like searching, help section, log in
etc.
I actually really dislike this trend for websites. For most
computers vertical space is the premium, and using extra just for
navigation that you won't need except at the end of an article is a
waste in my opinion. This is probably less true for large-ish
portrait devices like tablets (when in portrait orientation), but in
general I far prefer to not have any navigation chrome around when
I'm actually reading. Wikihow actually does this even worse than
just the green header, as the "Steps" header also becomes fixed when
one scrolls through the articles.