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a scrollbar when done right is the most natural form of moving down a page. most scrollwheels have "notches", so if you move the wheel one "notch", its rarely
by 2h 3y ago
a scrollbar when done right is the most natural form of moving down a page.
most scrollwheels have "notches", so if you move the wheel one "notch", its rarely the exact amount you wanted to move. the middle click is also not ideal, because it starts moving the page based on the current mouse position relative to the original position. so if you accidentally move too far away from the origin, the page shoots up or down.
with a scrollbar done right, you have fine grained, manual control of the movement of the page.
- mayoff 3y agoI'm not sure why you'd call it the most ‘natural’ form. Scroll bars don't appear in nature. Of all the ways to scroll content, direct manipulation (dragging your finger directly on the document on the screen) is most like the way we move real things around in nature.
- 2h 3y agoyes, because the word "natural" only has one meaning.