Those drop-down top bar menu things... how do I make them go away?

You know, fwiw, this site does that screwy paging-with-a-spacebar problem too w/ the new redesign, unless you click the little "x" in the top right corner. I'm really glad they added the ability to hide the top nav here. Everybody should do that.

Some browsers, like Firefox, will detect those headers and automatically adjust the page-down motion to compensate. Others, like Safari, have a built-in http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/25072/how-to-use-and-tweak-reader-mode-in-safari/ that shows just the main content of the article. (This works the same as the readability extension that leotrotsky posted above.)

I don't know of a way to make the header go away, but in a situation like this I would find dragging two fingers on the trackpad an easy and satisfactory solution to the problem.

Ahhhhh, thank you! I use Chrome, got Readability.

Press Command+Option+I and paste this line: document.getElementById("nav-container").style.display = "none"

I'm on a Mac, using Firefox, and this is what I do: Hover over that bar, and two-finger click; select "inspect element" and then in the box that opens at the http://imgur.com/mMWbaZd select the div id=mobile-nav-container. Two-finger select that and hit "delete node." Gone. It's only gone for that article; it will reappear when you load a different page. But still.

I have had that same annoyance and leotrotsky's link to the Readability extension just made my day.

Oh, and on lack of preview: Yeah, readability works, too!

For the web site designers in the house, Mike Bostock (NYT Graphics) has an http://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/. I see this bug on a lot of sites now. I'm surprised a highbrow site like the New Yorker is this broken; I'd think their web team would take more pride in their work.