From: Bakul Shah <bakul@BitBlocks.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] scrollbar
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:39:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403042139.i24LdwHA024896@gate.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:04:57 EST." <20040304190457.GA11430@sigint.cs.purdue.edu>
> Personally, I find it less distracting when reading text to have the
> scrollbar out of the way on the right. My eyes seldom have to traverse
> the window all the way to the right edge, but they're constantly refocusing
> on the left edge, which is easier when it's uniform.
But why use a scrollbar? Why move the mouse to
any edge if all you want to do is to show a
different part through a window? Panning would be
so much easier (especially if combined with
increasing scroll/pan speed proportional to the
distance travelled by the mouse).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-04 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-04 10:48 Tiit Lankots
2004-03-04 10:54 ` matt
2004-03-04 13:38 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-04 17:15 ` Rob Pike
2004-03-04 17:22 ` Rob Pike
2004-03-04 17:43 ` rog
2004-03-04 20:21 ` splite
2004-03-05 4:42 ` ron minnich
2004-03-05 4:45 ` Bakul Shah
2004-03-05 18:45 ` [9fans] borders rog
2004-03-05 18:40 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-03-05 18:49 ` rog
2004-03-05 18:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-03-05 19:08 ` rog
2004-03-04 19:04 ` [9fans] scrollbar splite
2004-03-04 19:07 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-03-04 19:17 ` rog
2004-03-04 21:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-03-04 22:28 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-04 19:15 ` rog
2004-03-04 20:56 ` splite
2004-03-04 21:39 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2004-03-04 21:51 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-04 22:10 ` splite
2004-03-04 22:40 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-05 0:33 ` Derek Fawcus
2004-03-05 11:33 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-05 1:16 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-03-05 1:59 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-05 3:45 ` David Presotto
2004-03-05 11:50 ` 9nut
2004-03-05 14:31 ` Michael H. Collins
2004-03-05 14:26 ` Michael H. Collins
2004-03-05 2:00 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-05 9:14 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2004-03-05 11:36 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-04 10:57 Tiit Lankots
2004-03-04 11:05 ` matt
2004-03-04 11:17 ` plan9
2004-03-04 11:15 Tiit Lankots
2004-03-05 14:58 David Presotto
2004-03-05 16:33 ` Michael H. Collins
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