Victor Manta wrote :

A disadvantage of your proposal is that it creates a quite big block
of text that is moved on the left site of each page. Compare this
with "my" solution, where I "eat" just two line of text, in a region
where a scrolled text is rarely read.


Hello Victor,

You are right : Alyn's proposal would conduct to reduce too much the
useful text.

Nevertheless I agree with those saying that these scrolling stuffs
are *very* annoying.
As you say they hide two lines of the text, but IMHO this is not
the most important.
What is very boring is that the reader of your page feels offended by
this moving device which scrolls *independantly of his wishes*.
At least it is the case for me. I think that the *only* solution is
to leave this window *steady* at the top of your window.

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All the best,
Amicalement
Pierre Courtiade