Scrolling sidebar

[schalkneethling]

In #2972 @wbamberg brought up an interesting topic. What if our sidebars were sticky as you scroll on desktop. This sounds really interesting.

I played around with the idea in dev tools and recorder a little animated GIF. What do you think? Implementation will not be super hard so, it is more of a UX question.

Please share your thoughts and vote if you would like to see this become a feature of MDN Web Docs.

[wbamberg]

I think this is great, thanks for trying it out @schalkneethling ! If you had a branch where we could play around with it I'd love that.

(things I love about this: if I've scrolled some way down the doc and I want to look at compat, I don't have to scroll back up to the top to see the link to BCD).

A lot of sites (e.g. Stripe, GitHub) arrange things so the sidebar gets the whole height of the window, and the header is made accordingly narrower. But this is a bigger change and one we may not be ready for.

[peterbe]

If you had a branch where we could play around with it I'd love that.

@schalkneethling If you have a branch, push it to mdn (rather than your fork) than we can deploy a whole site with it to the Dev server. It'll get its own domain and everything.

[schalkneethling]

This landed as part of the MDN Web Docs redesign 🎉