From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] panning or scrolling, page(1)
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Fri,  2 Mar 2001 21:49:26 -0500
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I strongly prefer the panning model to the scrolling model. It's so much
easier to use I wish it were available everywhere.  Are you really asking for
some indication of what part of the image is visible?  Scroll bars provide
that at the cost of a crappy interface, but there's no reason at all why a
panning interface can't give you some indication of what subset of the
entire object you're viewing.

-rob