Short post describing how to use CSS's animation-timeline to add a reading progress indicator to webpages so that users can see how far through the page they've scrolled
What is actually the attraction of reading progress indicators on webpages?
I get that it’s fun to do active things with CSS instead of javascript, sure.
But aside from goofing off and/or tech demos – is there a target audience who is excited and happy to have a progress bar on their pages and misses it when absent? I’ve been seeing this feature frequently and for me it’s kind of annoying.
What is actually the attraction of reading progress indicators on webpages?
I get that it’s fun to do active things with CSS instead of javascript, sure.
But aside from goofing off and/or tech demos – is there a target audience who is excited and happy to have a progress bar on their pages and misses it when absent? I’ve been seeing this feature frequently and for me it’s kind of annoying.