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The first thing that jumps out at me there is the use of the vertical scroll bar and back button, instead of hardware scrollers and back buttons.
by bonzoesc 14y ago
The first thing that jumps out at me there is the use of the vertical scroll bar and back button, instead of hardware scrollers and back buttons.
- tommymorgan 14y agoWhat jumped out at me was the 71% for the reload button. Unless they've changed the layout since I customized my copy, the reload button defaults to being a tiny button at the right end of the awesome bar. I moved mine to where Chrome has it and these numbers indicate that a lot of others have done the same. That or Mozilla moved it and I naturally didn't notice.
- mbrubeck 14y agoThe default location of the reload button changed in Firefox 4 beta a couple months after this study: http://mozillalinks.org/2010/09/unified-stop-reload-go-button-comes-to-firefox-4/ http://mozillalinks.org/2010/09/unified-stop-reload-go-butto...
- tommymorgan 14y agoThe scroll bar numbers make me further believe that OS X Lion's scroll bars are a bad design. My computer is not a tablet... saving ~10 of 1920 pixels is not something I needed or wanted.
- todd3834 14y agoThe OS X Lion scrollbars, or lack of clunky scrollbars, has dramatically improved the design of so many webpages IMHO.
- Tyr42 14y agoI have turned my scrollbars back on, not because I want to use them, but because I want to look and see how much of a page is left without moving my mouse over there. I never actually click on it.
- moonboots 14y agoUbuntu Unity has some neat tricks to make scrollbars more usable [1]. Instead of requiring users to hone in on the up/down arrows or the "thumb", hovering anywhere near the scrollbar brings up a widget that compactly encapsulates all this functionality. I don't care for Unity enough to start using it day to day, but this feature struck me as clever though radical.
- streptomycin 14y agoWait, that's supposed to be more usable than the status quo?
- idleloops 14y agoLooks like you can't determine the length of something like a web page with the unity scroll bar.
- floomp 14y agoThe scroll bar's size is still proportional to the document length, so I don't see why you couldn't.
- idleloops 14y agoAha perhaps it wasn't so obvious from the videos I viewed. I did notice that a few people were quite desperate to turn off the unity scroll bar while on my travels looking.
- jay_kyburz 14y agoYeah, don't people use their mouse wheel or two finger scrolling on the trackpad?
- idleloops 14y agoI use the side of the touchpad if needed. I'd recommend avoiding scrolling as much as you can. I prefer myself to page with the space bar - well at least on web pages. It's much nicer. (Shift and Space to go back up.) Scrolling is tiring, in that it requires me having to do a lot of eye tracking.
- idleloops 14y agoI notice this all the time with your 'normal' user. The scroll bar is quite possibly the most horrific unfriendly control. It's just too narrow. Those users that don't have that much control of a pointer, struggle with scroll bars and small buttons / drop downs etc. I like the Apple way of placing controls on the left, but having a scroll bar on the right negates a lot of the benefit of doing so. Having said that they are quite handy as page length / where you are indicators.