From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <30278959ab62af842970c5f0411e7a63@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] horizontal scroll for acme? From: okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:46:53 +0900 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c3687d14-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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