{"id":50914,"date":"2026-02-04T17:32:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50914"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:52:08","slug":"testing-tip-always-show-scrollbars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/04\/testing-tip-always-show-scrollbars\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Tip: Always Show Scrollbars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unsung.aresluna.org\/testing-tip-always-show-scrollbars\/\">Marcin Wichary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/unsung.aresluna.org\/testing-tip-always-show-scrollbars\/\">\n<p>This scrollbar serves no purpose, so it will become visual noise for a lot of your users. But when you yourself use &ldquo;shy&rdquo; scrollbars, you might not even realize.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the scrollbar is just a symptom of a bigger problem &#x2013; an accidentally scrolling surface that <em>will<\/em> be janky to everyone regardless of their scrollbar visibility status.<\/p>\n<p>Always-visible scrollbars make it easier to spot these, not to mention also being helpful in spotting[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/15\/tahoe-broke-resizing-finder-columns-view\/\">Tahoe Broke Resizing Finder Columns View<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"testing-tip-always-show-scrollbars-update-2026-02-05\">Update (<a href=\"#testing-tip-always-show-scrollbars-update-2026-02-05\">2026-02-05<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@lapcatsoftware\/116014835646827005\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@lapcatsoftware\/116014835646827005\">\n<p>Also, Keyboard navigation<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcin Wichary: This scrollbar serves no purpose, so it will become visual noise for a lot of your users. But when you yourself use &ldquo;shy&rdquo; scrollbars, you might not even realize. Of course, the scrollbar is just a symptom of a bigger problem &#x2013; an accidentally scrolling surface that will be janky to everyone regardless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-02-04T22:33:00Z","apple_news_api_id":"1a8d08dd-ed93-4cbf-9520-549449f35674","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-02-05T17:52:12Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AGo0I3e2TTL-VIFSUSfNWdA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,30,2742,71],"class_list":["post-50914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-mac","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50918,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914\/revisions\/50918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}