Long webpages usability problem
I regularly read blog sites around the internet and I'm constantly finding pages that are too long. This happens a lot when there are multiple blog items on the same page or there is a top 50 designs or top 50 jquery plugins type of page. Have a look at the image below.
If you look closely you will see a usability problem with the above image. I suppose it's not necessarily the website developers fault but in fact a browser problem. Once a page gets to a certain length it seems that the browser decides that creating a tiny scrollbar is ok. Have a look at how small the clickable area of the scrollbar is that allows dragging.
For most, this would be incredibly hard to click on. An area that is just a few millimetre's in height is not acceptable for most users. Browser manufacturers need to fix this problem and web developers should avoid having pages that are too long.
