May
4
Floating some sort of message or other control/decoration at the bottom of a web page might seem like a good idea, but it can be troublesome for users who navigate with the keyboard, instead of the mouse, such as on CBS News.
The problem is when a user presses the Page Down key (or the space bar), flow is interrupted because part of the previous page was hidden by the floating object. It’s impossible to read full pages at a time, and this is annoying at best.
