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Honestly... this made things confusing without improving my reading ability. a lot of people actually like scrolling. So many people in fact, that they success
by jiaaro 14y ago
Honestly... this made things confusing without improving my reading ability.
a lot of people actually like scrolling. So many people in fact, that they successfully pressured Apple to add scrolling as an alternative to pagination in iBooks.
I'm one of the people who uses that. I'm trying to be polite, but my honest reaction to this interface was, "oh god, this is awful," when I tried to use the mouse to scroll the page.
- freework 14y agoDo you hate it because its bad, or do you hate it because it's different?
- sliverstorm 14y agoBecause it is bad.
- zanny 14y agoI want to reiterate this - scrolling is good if you can do endless page scrolling and keep your eyes in one place, while moving the text to match them. I always continuously scroll articles I read so that my current line stays near or at the top of the page. Much better than a tiny black bar moving down the page while I have to move my eyes.
- TheCapn 14y agoOn the flip side I actually liked it. I'm a FF user, and in the instant it clicked my first thought was "damn, I need chrome." Options aren't a bad thing. Android offers multiple keyboards for people who find one method of typing more efficient/comfortable than others. I don't see any downsides to it because everyone gets what they want without forcing anyone to conform to a model they don't like.
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- Fletch137 14y agoAbsolutely with you on this - any kind of pagination on the web makes me cringe. On the other hand, I imagine that if you were someone that liked pagination, this might be pretty nice.
- saint-loup 14y ago"You'll get used to it" can quickly becomes a lazy excuse for many bad experimentations in interaction design, but in this case I really think this is the right answer. At first, I found it disturbing as hell, and the implementation could be better (for instance, with a margin between the two pages, in addition to the black line), but this is really an interesting and promising answer to the pagination/scroll debate.
- robmcm 14y agoLike, you'll get used to inverted scroll in Mountain Lion? Innovation takes getting used to, evolution doesn't.
- kyro 14y agoEh, I hate it, personally. It's the first thing I disable when installing Mountain Lion.
- gfodor 14y agothis is a surefire way to not get used to it.
- robotmay 14y agoI never got used to that, it seemed totally backwards to me. I can deal with it on a screen where my finger is (almost) physically attached to what I'm scrolling, but not on a detached mouse/trackpad and display.
- teebs 14y agoI actually got used to it fairly quickly. After a day or two I instinctively used reverse (or "natural") scrolling, and I can switch back pretty easily when I'm using other people's computers. It does seem like almost no one else switched though.
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoI didn't just get used to the inverted scrolling, I fell in love with it. I think it makes perfect sense, and fells more "connected" with what I'm doing.
- toddmorey 14y agoI got used to it when scrolling forward. When you want to scroll back up, though, this approach really seems to break down.
- lazyGeneral 14y agoIt would be a lot less confusing if the text from the previous page dissapeared...or if that line that follows you worked not with pages but as a scroll.... The line is the interesting feature.
- sliverstorm 14y agoOr if the dividing line was twenty times thicker. When pages are narrow, my brain tends to start reading the next line before it is finished reading the first line. Imagine how well this works out for me when the "next line" is not only from the previous page, but currently cut in half by the scroll line.
- digitalengineer 14y agoYes! That was the 1st thing I thought as well. If you could make the previous text disappear or set it at 30% opacity it wouldn't even ned a divider. I like the way this reads. I'd like to see it as a feature for iBooks / e-readers.
- haroldp 14y agoI thought it was pleasant enough to use. I actually have my middle-mouse button remapped to PgDn, so this is more or less how I navigate already. My system doesn't need to use 2/3 of a page for two buttons though.
- rhizome 14y agoIt's the difference between moving the page and moving your eyes.
- crazygringo 14y agoThe New Yorker iPhone app does a fantastic job by combining the best of both worlds. Most articles are "paginated", but you "scroll" up/down between pages. So you get the same nice physical sensation of vertical scrolling, but also the nice physical sensation of pages. (Plus, they get to lay out photos nicely, etc., knowing how it will fit exactly with the text.)