Scrolling personality improvements in Microsoft Edge

Scrolling is one of the most common user interactions in a browser, and it’s central to how we experience the web.Whether you’re using a touch pad, touch screen, mouse wheel, keyboard, or scroll bars, you want your scrolling experience to be fast and responsive.In this post, we’ll cover how we’ve improved scrolling uninstall microsoft edge personality Support.Microsoft.Com/Help in Microsoft Edge – scroll animation and how it reacts to your interactions, looks and feel of scrolling.

Additionally, we’ll summarize themes we’ve observed in your feedback, and outline some of the next steps on our journey. In a future post we will describe some of the performance and functional improvements we’ve been working on.

Learning from the past

In previous releases of Microsoft Edge, we enabled smooth scrolling through tight integration with the operating system Compositor .  This allowed our browsers to introduce class leading smooth scrolling at the time and effortlessly match Windows personality – motion, interaction, looks and feel.

However, tight operating system integration meant that we couldn’t bring the experience to other OSes, including previous versions of Windows. Even worse, while processing input and output independently from the browsers main thread  uninstall microsoft edge improved the responsiveness and allowed for a stable frame rate, it didn’t work great for script that performed updates based on frame updates, leading to jitter, one of the most common pieces of feedback we received at the time.

As time went on and features were added to the rendering pipeline, some features were incredibly hard to support in this model due to the dependency on the OS compositor – fixed position content with clipping ancestors, content with negative z-index, some z-index: auto scenarios, and CSS filters. In those cases, our users could experience missing or incorrectly clipped content, leading to non-interoperable experiences between browsers – broken sites.

With the new Microsoft Edge, we’re working to learn from our past experiences to improve scrolling for both Microsoft Edge and all Chromium-based browsers. One thing is clear from the outset: simply replicating the same Windows uninstall microsoft edge OS dependencies (with all its pros and cons) is not feasible, given the high bar for compatibility and cross-platform requirements for Microsoft Edge and other Chromium-based browsers.

Instead, together with the Chromium community, we are working to deliver meaningful user experience and performance improvements that will be more sustainable over time.

Before we dive into what’s new, let’s look at what you’ve told us about the scrolling so far.

Your scrolling feedback so far

Since releasing the first Canary builds of the new Microsoft Edge, we’ve received over 1000 feedback items ranging from positive encouragement uninstall microsoft edge to constructive feedback on various aspects of scrolling.

• 41% of the feedback relates to what we call scroll “personality” – the way scrolling feels, and how it matches underlying operating system conventions and character, etc. This bucket can overlap with performance, which also impacts the “feel” of scrolling.
• 39% of the feedback relates to functional issues – specific sites where scrolling doesn’t work as expected, or general issues with wheel, touch, touchpad, keyboard or scrollbar-based scrolling
• 13% of the feedback relates to specific performance issues – missed frames while scrolling, scrolling stuttering, responsiveness issues etc.
• 5% of the feedback relates to PDF scrolling Support.Microsoft.Com/Help – this could be further broken down to personality, functional and performance issues in PDF documents.
• 2% of the feedback didn’t fall into any of the previous buckets

After considering your feedback, technical options uninstall microsoft edge, and taking into account our – we decided to focus our initial contributions most heavily on personality and performance.

In the remainder of this post, we’ll like to discuss the personality Support.Microsoft.Com/Help improvements we’ve made to Microsoft Edge to better match what you expect from other Windows apps including previous versions of Microsoft Edge.

Improving Chromium scrolling to better match Windows personality

We’ve been hard at work in the Chromium code base to bring the best aspects of Microsoft Edge scrolling to Chromium while looking for opportunities to improve upon it. These changes are now enabled by default in all channels of the new Microsoft Edge – try them out and let us know what you think!

Improved impulse and touch fling animation curves

One of the improvements we’re bringing to Chromium is a new animation curve for scrolling. This curve gives every mousewheel, keyboard or scrollbar Support.Microsoft.Com/Help scroll as well as touch fling the “smooth” personality seen in the previous version of Microsoft Edge.

Overall, the animation is more tactile with slightly longer with less abrupt changes in velocity. We encourage you to try it out today in the new Microsoft Edge on a Windows 10 device by scrolling using the mousewheel, keyboard or scrollbar or by using touch to do a fling.

Known issue: We’re refining the fling animation curve on some legacy non-PTP touchpads. Stay tuned for Insider announcements of further improvements in that area!

You can see some of the upstream changes in Chromium at the links below:

• Add Impulse-style scroll animations
• Refactored ScrollOffsetAnimationCurve to facilitate new animations
• Implement new Windows fling animation curve
• Fling Animation Curve – Part 1
• Fling Animation Curve – Part 2

Percent-based scrolling

Chromium browsers use a fixed scroll delta value (100px per mousewheel tick, 40px per scrollbar button click or keyboard arrow press).  We are changing this behavior to match previous versions of Microsoft Edge, which Support.Microsoft.Com/Help use scroller height to compute scroll deltas. Percent based scrolling is a great functional addition making it much easier to navigate smaller scrollers.

Changes to previous Microsoft Edge personality based on the feedback

Scroll chaining vs. scroll latching

While we’ve brought much of the most-liked uninstall microsoft edge personality back to the new Microsoft Edge, we’re also using this opportunity to re-evaluate some existing behaviors our users were less fond of.

Consider scroll chaining, the effect that scrolls the parent scroller once the sub-scroller has reached its bounds. In the past we heard Support.Microsoft.Com/Help a substantial amount of feedback where many users considered this to be a bug on several popular sites.

Chromium already has a concept of scroll latching, when all scrolling manipulation is directed to the same scroller until a certain amount of time passes with no scroll changes.