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> But essentially I think the scrolling left and right panes are not a bad idea. Until touch/mouse inputs have a widespread support for horizontal scrolling by
by necovek 4y ago
> But essentially I think the scrolling left and right panes are not a bad idea.
Until touch/mouse inputs have a widespread support for horizontal scrolling by default, like they do for vertical scrolling (scroll wheels or two-finger drags), I think they are going to remain a bad idea: you have to move your pointer from the thing you are looking at to the scrollbar and then back.
One could say it's a chicken and an egg problem, but displays are already much wider than they are taller, and if you do need them even wider, you are failing miserably IMO.
- egypturnash 4y agoApple's trackpads have supported two-finger horizontal drags for ages. If you're on a Mac right now here's something I did that's explicitly designed to be a very long horizontal scroll that you can try it with: http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/chapter/01/ http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/chapter/01/
- GekkePrutser 4y agoI wasn't speaking of horizontal scrolling, Apple's (and KDE's) only needs vertical.
- necovek 4y agoOh, my apologies: I misread "scrolling right and left panes" as horizontal scrolling.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoYeah sorry about that, I meant that both panes scroll independently (but only vertically). I totally agree about horizontal scrolling by the way, it's horrible. I used to use Siebel 6 which used that heavily. And Microsoft's Azure portal does it too Though in Azure it's more like a 'breadcrumb' thing to go back, you don't normally need it. In Siebel you actually needed it to get to some important fields.