I agree the scrollbar is dying and becoming unusable. A scroll bar needs to be:
- Wide, clearly visible and easy to hit.
- Proportional sized, indicating how much of the document is currently in view.
- Movable parts should have features indicating friction, as opposed to slippy-ness.
- With arrow buttons, placed together instead of at opposing ends.
- It should change colors to indicate hover and mouse press.
Of the classic scrollbars shown here https://scrollbars.matoseb.com/ , the Nextstep one comes closest to having it all and the Mac OS 8 is the overall prettiest. IMHO.
- Wide, clearly visible and easy to hit.
- Proportional sized, indicating how much of the document is currently in view.
- Movable parts should have features indicating friction, as opposed to slippy-ness.
- With arrow buttons, placed together instead of at opposing ends.
- It should change colors to indicate hover and mouse press.
Of the classic scrollbars shown here https://scrollbars.matoseb.com/ , the Nextstep one comes closest to having it all and the Mac OS 8 is the overall prettiest. IMHO.