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Retain site header at the top of the page (non-scrolling header) (accepted)
Retain the site header at the top of the page (non-scrolling header) and let rest of page scroll up under it.
This would pretty much address the Scrolling Chat feedback as well.
This may help mitigate some of the desire for Tabbed RP in pages, if the site header becomes more of the unfolding control center that it could be, per mentions by Wrecked Avent.
The idea of the control center is that many of the things that we go to certain 'tabs' on other pages could be housed in it, making full page jumps far less likely. It could also house various activity notifications or even supplant browser notifications, which I'm starting to hate. The reason I mention the control center folding header is that with that much functionality in the header, you really wouldn't want it to scroll up ever.
Examples of headers that don't scroll are Twitter or this site
endorsement points: 31
created: 20 June 15 at 01:52 AM (build: 6/15/2015 4:01 AM beta)
This sounds like a nifty suggestion, but the one concern I have, is that it might take away from mobile experience if implemented. Although it isn't drastic, using mobile sites with scrolling headers, it does tend to make things lag a bit more.
That aside, assuming this keeps only to desktop, I think it sounds great, aside from taking up a bit of room at the top of the screen obviously, which in chats, limits the vision of a post you might be responding to. However, that's an ease of access issue, which is subjective and not really technical.
The site's header is not particularly large, and I could see it being compacted a bit if it docks to avoid taking up too much space. It is true a bit more care would have to be taken on mobile, though.
Mobile could have a button at the bottom that controls whether the sticky header should appear.
Other sites handle this by having the important links in an ever-present sidebar (doable on desktop) or reachable via a button from the chat bar (doable on mobile).
HTML5 is wonderful in that it caters to all form factors. If you use a method to detect what the viewer is using, you can make changes between mobile or desktop versions to optimize the viewing experience. So, I very much agree to this idea. It does get annoying sometimes having to scroll all the way back up after a long post. And who knows, maybe with HTML5 they included a way to do it without lagging the systems too much? Its worth doing some research over, I think.
There's been good high-performance ways to do stuff like this for a few years, so it's more a matter of whether we do it and what form it takes.
Another option might even just be a button or link to return to the top of the page instantly, if a moving header isn't an option.
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