I always thought that the in-page redirects are fucking stupid, it should bring the text I want to see closer to eye level, not exactly at the top where even browser bars can block the text (happens when you go back from footnotes to article on LW).
For some screen size/shape, for some browser positioning, for some readers, this is probably true. It’s fucking stupid to believe that’s anywhere close to a majority. If that’s YOUR reading area, why not just make your browser that size?
It should be pretty easy to write a tampermonkey or browser extension to make it work that way. Now that you point it out, I’m kind of surprised this doesn’t seem to exist.
I admit that 30-50% is arbitrary and shouldn’t be brought up like a fact, I have removed it. (I didn’t mean to have such a strong tone there, but I did) What I really want to say is that the default location for the target text to be somewhere closer to the middle/wherever most people usually put their eyes on. (Perhaps exactly the height where you clicked the in-page redirect?)
I still stand by that it should not be exactly at the top for ease of reading (I hope this doesn’t sound too motte-and-bailey). The reason that it is redirected to the top is probably because it is a very objective location and wouldn’t get affected by device size. But it is very much not a standard location where the current line of text you are reading will be. I am willing to bet that <3% of people read articles where they scroll their currently reading line up to the top three visible lines.
I always thought that the in-page redirects are fucking stupid, it should bring the text I want to see closer to eye level, not exactly at the top where even browser bars can block the text (happens when you go back from footnotes to article on LW).
For some screen size/shape, for some browser positioning, for some readers, this is probably true. It’s fucking stupid to believe that’s anywhere close to a majority. If that’s YOUR reading area, why not just make your browser that size?
It should be pretty easy to write a tampermonkey or browser extension to make it work that way. Now that you point it out, I’m kind of surprised this doesn’t seem to exist.
I admit that 30-50% is arbitrary and shouldn’t be brought up like a fact, I have removed it. (I didn’t mean to have such a strong tone there, but I did) What I really want to say is that the default location for the target text to be somewhere closer to the middle/wherever most people usually put their eyes on. (Perhaps exactly the height where you clicked the in-page redirect?)
I still stand by that it should not be exactly at the top for ease of reading (I hope this doesn’t sound too motte-and-bailey). The reason that it is redirected to the top is probably because it is a very objective location and wouldn’t get affected by device size. But it is very much not a standard location where the current line of text you are reading will be. I am willing to bet that <3% of people read articles where they scroll their currently reading line up to the top three visible lines.