From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) In-Reply-To: <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE056164@black.aprote.com> References: <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE056164@black.aprote.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <7C36814D-6DFF-11D8-87B0-000A95B984D8@mightycheese.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Rob Pike Subject: Re: [9fans] scrollbar To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 09:15:07 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 148c18c6-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Windows/MacOS constantly place the scrollbar on right. > X/Plan9 constantly place it on left. > > Is there some reasoning behind this logic? when i wrote my first scroll bar, back around 1980, i'd only seen them on the left because that's where xerox put them. later, when they started appearing on the right, i wondered why, since it was obvious that with a left-to-right language the odds are the mouse is closer to the left edge than the right. (as i type this, the entire left half of my window is blank.) so you'll have to ask the windows and apple guys why they reversed the smalltalk decision. -rob