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    If nothing else they're an affordance cue, and they often at least Candice the currently loaded content's length. ON a slow connection that can be pretty important. Commented Aug 20, 2012 at 0:00
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    so perhaps I'm one of the last scrollbar user on the whole World. Windows 7 (the most popular OS in Windows world) and all most popular Desktop Environments in Unix/Linux world are still using scroll bars. So no, there is no way for you to be the last user of the scroll bars in the world. :) Commented Aug 20, 2012 at 13:37
  • @SkyDan: I was referring to these hidden scrollbars found in OS X [Mountain] Lion and Ubuntu, quite an interesting approach given that we have really wide ratios, that is,we have plenty of horizontal space available for scrollbars. I like these blue capsules in OS X SnowLeo, and I've got fooled by these hidden scrollbars quite often, believing I see the whole content. But I didn't want to make the discussion opinionated, that's why I removed most of that paragraph.... Commented Aug 20, 2012 at 16:45
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    Oh and for the love... please someone give a great answer to this question and let the big bosses know: the current infinite scrolling solutions on social media etc. are driving me nuts! Commented Aug 27, 2012 at 20:36
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    Excel has had infinite scrollbars for ages, it's nothing new. And 99 out of 100 times you'll find out infinite isn't as infinite as you think. Commented Aug 29, 2012 at 8:56