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Who else think the wheel direction is inverted?
by est 17y ago
Who else think the wheel direction is inverted?
- wmblaettler 17y agoI came here to comment on just that. Wheel-down should increase just as one would scroll down a list on a page that is ordered ascendingly. Of course, I play first person shooters with my mouse y-axis inverted. So maybe I am backwards.
- robicch 17y ago:-) LOL..... I made a poll before doing it....
- est 17y agoHmm, when I first saw the calendar, I think oh cool, there is only one week to choose, the week above and below must be hidden, so it's nature way to navigate to previous week is to scroll up, and scroll down to see the next week. Although it's not scroll by week but by day, but you get the idea.
- nollidge 17y agoHow did you do the poll, though? Were they supposed to pick between two live demos, or did you just ask "should scrolling up increase or decrease the value"? In left-to-right languages, I would think most people's intuition is to scroll down to move right and scroll up to move left (with a unidirectional scroll wheel, anyway).
- romland 17y agoI have to side with Est, my intuition tells me that it is inverted. I can see why people would want to -say- that up should increase the number, but my initial reaction when landing on the page was that it was inverted. Make it configurable if it isn't. :)
- robicch 17y agoI'll add a config parameter to choose scroll direction...
- bhousel 17y agoIt probably has something to do with differences in how people think about abstract concepts like time.. Read these, really fascinating stuff actually. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=758822 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=758822 http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/08/surprising-links-between-anger-and-time.html http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/08/surprising-l...
- robicch 17y agothis is a really amazing research!