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Ask HN: What is your preferred way to scroll a website while reading?
When reading an article online how do you prefer to scroll the page?
This is a two part question:
How do you physically scroll the page?
- Track Pad?
- Scroll Wheel on a Mouse?
- Scroll Ring on a trackball?
- Arrow Keys?
- Page Up/Down Buttons?
- Dragging the Scroll Bar?
- An unusual device like a foot pedal?
- Some kind of auto scrolling program?
- Some other thing?
How often do you scroll while reading?
- Do you continuously scroll the page while you are reading it?
- Do you read the entire page before scrolling?
- Some other behavior?
I'm curious what most people do. I like to scroll at the same time as I am reading it and I think this kind of thing might lead to RSI. I am considering switching to reading the whole page and then using Page Down.
- thisismatu 4y agoOn a laptop, i usually scroll while reading and use either the trackpad or a mouse scroll wheel to scroll. On the phone i tend to read the page and scroll as needed.
- pestatije 4y agoIndex finger sweeping up the screen
- davydm 4y agowhen I have a maus - scrollwheel when I'm dealing with loadshedding and have to use my laptop by itself, two fingers, trackpad, moving in the direction of scrolling, like a regular person, none of the upside-down "grabbing the paper" rubbish that iKids like
- davydm 4y agoif you're using the scroll-wheel, I'm not sure how that would lead to RSI - I rest quite comfortably on the maus wheel without any tension in my hand or arm - if you find that you have tension, perhaps look into that?
- PopAlongKid 4y agoAs a user of command line Unix, and desktop computers since before mice were common, I use arrow keys and page up/page down. When mice became common, I used scroll bar more often. For speed, keystrokes almost always beat mouse movements. Surprisingly, only in the last few years did I really give the mouse wheel a try, due to a piece of software I was forced to use on a Chromebook. Now I use it frequently. Track pad or the little "pencil eraser" control on some laptops (in the middle of the keyboard) are my least used methods.
- James_Henry 4y agoIt depends on the content and the page. I do like using space bar rather than the page down key.
- cheapliquor 4y agoRacing wheel/DDR pad
- Leftium 4y agoI use PageDown/Space + a bookmarklet that marks where the bottom of the page was after scrolling: [Scroll Better with the Space-Bar]. (I modified mine to darken the entire old area instead of just a red line.) [Scroll Better with the Space-Bar]: https://www.ph-uhl.com/0010-Bookmarklets/#:~:text=Scroll%20Better%20with%20the%20Space%2DBar https://www.ph-uhl.com/0010-Bookmarklets/#:~:text=Scroll%20B...
- regus 4y agoThis is very cool, thank you.