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I've seen this thing about "multiple scroll bars" in relation to scribd quite a bit (often presented as if this is a killer point that is the striking blow in t
by thwarted 18y ago
I've seen this thing about "multiple scroll bars" in relation to scribd quite a bit (often presented as if this is a killer point that is the striking blow in the argument against scribd).
When I first used scribd, I remember seeing two scrollbars on the right (this author says left ("And it introduces confusing functionality (TWO scrollbars on the left!? WTF?)"), which is weird, because vertical scollbars rarely, if ever, appear on the left). Then I realized that, since the scribd flash widget takes up the entire screen, the Ad Block Plus firefox plugin was adding its little "block" icon/tab, which was really making the widget larger than the size of the browser viewport. So there was the scrollbar created by the scribd interface, and the browser's scrollbar. Disabling Ad Block for scribd.com appears to have "fixed" this.
- tptacek 18y agoIt's extremely annoying, since it makes it hard to scroll documents with the two-button trackpad gesture on a Macbook.
- randallsquared 18y agoYeah, I went through his link to scribd and found only a single scroll bar, on the right. The only actually annoying thing I found about the interface in my short visit with it was that the scroll wheel didn't work, and I almost always use the scroll wheel quite a lot in documents.
- thwarted 18y agoYeah, you know oddly, I remember the scrollwheel working at some time in the past. Also, the interface seems to have inherited that unintuitive "grab and drag" functionality from Adobe Reader.