david
January 6, 2025, 10:12am
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This happens because of scroll anchoring in Chrome and Firefox (coming soon in Safari). This feature makes browsers ‘anchor’ themselves to a visible element, so that inserting content above the viewport doesn’t cause a shift in scroll position.
Firefox has a debug mode for this feature, which can be enabled by visiting about:config and toggling layout.css.scroll-anchoring.highlight. So yeah we can see that normally it anchors against something in the post-stream:
[SCR-20250106-itgo]
But if y…
Prior to that fix, the timeline would often be chosen as the scroll-anchoring point when scrolling down. So when the new posts rendered above, the browser would lock onto the timeline instead of the new post content.
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With the fix, the browser now anchors onto post-stream content:
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