Modern/Thin Scrollbar & Touchpad Zoom Support (With Video Examples)

[DreamerTraveler]

Hi Gio & Bambosh! Since ultimately, I'm no programmer, I decided editing a video suggesting two features that seem pretty essential to The Unofficial Homestuck Collection!

https://streamable.com/qt7mac

Here’s my recommendations: 1.) Modern/Thin scrollbars: Enabling a thin scrollbar will ultimately assist the app and stories having more spacious on the screen compared to the current one, allowing to have a more comfortable and convenient experience. I'd suggest as an option you can enable or disable to those who like the default scrollbar better.

2.) Touchpad zoom support. Since UHSC is technically a browser, I'd be welcoming specially for laptop users on having a flexible choice for zooming on the sites and on pictures.

I'd love knowing your thoughts and see if these new options have a possibility for any future updates, best wishes and appreciate your time! <3

[GiovanH]

I like the scrollbar suggestion. I'll have to look to see if that's doable with pure css, I think it might be.

The touchpad is interesting. I would have that whatever "zoom in" command sent by the touchpad driver would work natively. I'll have to take a look at that.

[DreamerTraveler]

Thanks for your feedback, Gio. I’m very glad you’re interested on my recommendations. To perhaps give some slight assistance, I’d like to share some small optional info related to that video:

• Microsoft Edge’s Overlay Scrollbar - https://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-or-disable-overlay-scrollbar-in-microsoft-edge
• Firefox CSS Scrollbar - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Scrollbars
• Codepen’s Custom Scrollbar Maker - https://codepen.io/stephenpaton-tech/full/JjRvGmY

Personalized Tumblr themes using custom scrollbar despite browser:

• https://sereinede.tumblr.com/
• https://drawthiere.tumblr.com/
• https://askthefantrollcast.tumblr.com/ [Very tiny bar]

Touchpad Pinch/Zoom Gesture controls Info:

• https://kenneth.io/post/detecting-multi-touch-trackpad-gestures-in-javascript
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_events/Pinch_zoom_gestures
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/fundamentals/gestures/pinch

The zooming pinch gesture behavior seems to work identically in Microsoft Edge, Firefox & Chrome. I assume there might be a possibility that it's the same code or extremely similar.

This might be the best I can do for now, feel free on sharing any questions or comments about the matter, great work and enjoy the evening.

[DreamerTraveler]

October, 30, 2022 Update:

https://github.com/luandersonn/Modern-scrollbar/

I found this extremely lightweight and open-source extension for Chromium based browsers, given how the code is available this might be handy to implement it into the UHSC browser. Cheers!