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Columns don't really work well with scrolling, unfortunately. You can do multiple pages of multiple columns or one scrollable column for longer content - person
by larkeith 8y ago
Columns don't really work well with scrolling, unfortunately. You can do multiple pages of multiple columns or one scrollable column for longer content - personally, I prefer the latter (and it's simpler technically), but either works.
- dfox 8y agoCurrent Microsoft's UI guidelines seems to prefer viewport height columns and horizontal scrolling, which makes much sense, but the UI which presents sane UX with that idea simply is not there yet.
- mirimir 8y agoYes, that's another good option.
- mirimir 8y agoTrue. But you can get display size, and paginate with ~80 character columns. So there's no need to scroll. As you say, scrolling really only works with one column. When I need to read lots of stuff that's hard-coded with two columns, I rotate my monitor to portrait.
- fian 8y agoMultiple columns don't work well for vertical scrolling. They should work fine if you horizontally scroll to see more columns (for example to the right for writing in English). This would allow more content to be displayed for users with larger screens without overly penalizing users who could only view one column at a time. The challenge would be to convert the normal vertical scroll to a horizontal scroll in an intuitive way (ie not too jarring for the user).
- larkeith 7y agoThat's a good point. I might have to try some experiments with side-scrolling columns, see how it works out for longform reading.