From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: splite@purdue.edu To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] scrollbar Message-ID: <20040304202107.GB11430@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> References: <7C36814D-6DFF-11D8-87B0-000A95B984D8@mightycheese.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:21:07 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1557a752-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:43:54PM +0000, rog@vitanuova.com wrote: > the only plausible reason i can come up with is that if you're drawing > the scrollbar only when you need to and you add the scrollbar on the > left, then all the text will jump rightwards. Not an issue for Apple; Mac OS scrollbars were always drawn in the active window, even if all the content was visible. Inactive windows still had the scrollbar space allocated, but the controls weren't drawn in. http://toastytech.com/guis/moremacwrd1desk.gif > it's interesting (ok, ok, it's deadly dull, but i'll continue anyway) > that when steve jobs did nextstep (post leaving apple) he put the > scrollbars on the left; when nextstep became macos X, the scrollbars > were moved to the right. The Dock was enough to confuse Mac OS users without moving the scrollbars too.