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Ever since the early days of the web, I've had problems with scrolling web pages. I'll read a page or so, press pagedown or space to go to the next segment, an
by blahedo 17y ago
Ever since the early days of the web, I've had problems with scrolling web pages. I'll read a page or so, press pagedown or space to go to the next segment, and read that---and my eye snaps right to the top of the window, where the next chunk of text will be. UNLESS, that is, I'm on the last piece, at which point I get totally lost because I have no idea where to find the last sentence I read. I have to re-scan from the top, searching for it.
So I knew exactly what the author was talking about when he was extolling the benefits of paged interactions!
- glhaynes 17y agoYes, hate it when that happens. I think a very nice aspect of reading on a touchscreen with drag-to-scroll is that this doesn't tend to happen. It makes things feel continuous and cohesive rather than chunked.
- wooster 17y agoYeah, mouse wheels and touch scrolling have pretty much eliminated that problem for me, so it's jarring whenever I have to use someone's machine without those features.
- jasonlotito 17y agoExcept he also ignores so much about scrolling. He makes the assumption that scrolling can only work one way. You do, too. Your problem isn't with scrolling. It's with the way scrolling is implemented. Even the articles diagram shows a horizontal scrolling example that would make reading easy. One page per screen. Done with that page? Scroll to the right. That's it. You could even have the scroll snap to the next logical page. You might call that paging, but it's not. Paging in this context is simulating flipping a page.
- chronomex 17y agoIf you use Opera, it can be configured to draw a faint grey line at the position where the bottom of the window used to be. (Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Browsing -> Show Scroll Marker)