[Pfiffer]

Real question: Why is this even allowed at a browser level?

[MenhirMike]

Because some people think that Browsers should be the ultimate app platform, so hijacking your inputs or preventing proper zoom makes sense to them even though it's utterly user hostile.

[giancarlostoro]

Which has led us to regress in terms of building GUI desktop apps. Remember the 2000s and 90s how you could make a somewhat native UI in Visual Basic 6 and Delphi, now you got to use an entire browser to get there.

[emchammer]

It's not just browsers, though. I have to scroll harder in News.app than in other MacOS applications. Real question: Why do designers do this?

[hutzlibu]

Because you can make all sorts of games and apps with the browser now, which is very cool. In my game the scrolling is just a fast way to zoom in and out and there it is no text to scroll, so it is very appropriate.

But yes, the downside is that some people think that websites, that really just should be pages, get gamified and abused like this.

[winrid]

Webkit has lots of "advanced" flags. We should add this as one!

[Qwertious]

Because stuff like that is what makes www.territorial.io possible