From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] horizontal scroll for acme? From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:58:26 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c33a37f6-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 i'd try to find another scheme. in my experience, and i'm fairly sure i'm not the only one, having two scrollbars hardly ever works sensibly in practice: you rarely want to move in just one dimension at once, so you end up having to flit between them, typically losing context whilst doing so. 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.