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From: okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] horizontal scroll for acme?
Date: Wed,  4 Jun 2003 16:46:53 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <30278959ab62af842970c5f0411e7a63@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca1f831c99d20cff33736d93ea86c06a@caldo.demon.co.uk>

Hi, Charles,

> you end up having to flit between them, typically losing context
> whilst doing so.

I agree with this point.   Yes, it's hard to image the whole sentence when
we scrolled up the part of the whole.

>it's particularly bad for program text and web
> pages.  indeed, i'd say it's a good example of an attempt to appear to
> solve a problem without actually doing so.

Yes, I thought once to display the querried result in a vertical dorection
where many attributes are aligned vertical, and instances are in horizontal.
This may be good if we could have a possibillity to exchange the vertical
and horizontal axis on a fly.    Is this an better idea?

kenji



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-04  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-04  1:44 okamoto
2003-06-04  6:58 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-06-04  7:30   ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-04  7:49     ` okamoto
2003-06-04  8:04       ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-04  9:06         ` okamoto
2003-06-04  7:46   ` okamoto [this message]
2003-06-04  7:58     ` okamoto
2003-08-04  8:59   ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-08-04  9:50     ` matt
2003-08-04 10:23       ` boyd, rounin
2003-08-04 11:27         ` matt
2003-08-04 11:46     ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-04 10:51 ` spam
2003-06-12  7:09 pac

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