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65points
36comments
#392of 1,739 in 2013
Top 23%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

0 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 4 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score -0.33.

Execution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Well-done plugin and good code

    From 2 comments
    • For anyone wondering "why do we need jQuery plugins for simple things like this?", you may be interested in position: sticky. Here's an article:…
      kevincennis on HN
    • Could do with some smoothing and polishing. Jerks all over the place. Also, what is with this new fashion of declaring functions as anonymous methods? ``` var recalculateLimits =…
      mattmanser on HN

Objections

  • Scroll handler may hurt performance; throttling suggested

    From 1 comment
    • As a best-practices criticism, this is using a direct window scroll handler, which can be a bit of a performance nightmare. It's often better to use some sort of throttling to…
      kemayo on HN
  • Does not work when sticky block is taller than window

    From 1 comment
    • This and all other solutions on this page doesn't work, when sticky block height is more than window height. Always showed the top of the block, but it should be scrolled to the…
      dmitrypolushkin on HN
  • Did not work on IE10 until fixed

    From 2 comments
  • Jerky scrolling with mouse scroll button

    From 1 comment
    • Could do with some smoothing and polishing. Jerks all over the place. Also, what is with this new fashion of declaring functions as anonymous methods? ``` var recalculateLimits =…
      mattmanser on HN

Requests

  • Working mobile browser support

    From 1 comment
    • Is there something like this that works properly in the mobile browser?
      websirnik on HN

Questions

  • How does it compare to Bootstrap affix?

    From 1 comment
    • How does this compare to say Bootstrap's affix plugin? I see that it supports a min-width property, but personally I'd rather deal with this myself via media queries (matchMedia…
      WickyNilliams on HN

Alternatives named

  • Bootstrap affix

    From 2 comments
    • This is good but there are some more mature solutions out there, bootstrap has a very basic 'affix' plugin built in. However I have found the waypoints plugin to be absolutely…
      smickie on HN
    • How does this compare to say Bootstrap's affix plugin? I see that it supports a min-width property, but personally I'd rather deal with this myself via media queries (matchMedia…
      WickyNilliams on HN
  • Waypoints

    From 1 comment
    • This is good but there are some more mature solutions out there, bootstrap has a very basic 'affix' plugin built in. However I have found the waypoints plugin to be absolutely…
      smickie on HN
  • ScrollToFixed

    From 2 comments
    • another similar plugin: https://github.com/bigspotteddog/ScrollToFixed
      dagi3d on HN
    • I have had reports that https://github.com/bigspotteddog/ScrollToFixed runs on mobile. Here are the confirmed combos: - iPad 4 running iOS 6.0 (10A403) with…
      bink-lynch on HN
  • sticky-panel

    From 1 comment
    • I built something like this about a year ago called sticky-panel. https://code.google.com/p/sticky-panel/ Mine only has a couple added features like before and after detach…
      DonnyV on HN
  • jquery-floating-widget

    From 1 comment
    • every time this kind of plugin comes up, i link to this one from years ago https://github.com/terkel/jquery-floating-widget
      leeoniya on HN
  • CSS position: sticky

    From 1 comment
    • For anyone wondering "why do we need jQuery plugins for simple things like this?", you may be interested in position: sticky. Here's an article:…
      kevincennis on HN

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