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Video forces me to go at someone else's pace -- the creator or expected 'average viewer' -- which is often too slow. It also makes skipping or rewinding a matt
by gojomo 13y ago
Video forces me to go at someone else's pace -- the creator or expected 'average viewer' -- which is often too slow.
It also makes skipping or rewinding a matter of finely-navigated clicks into tiny target areas, whereas the best hardware scrolling controls offer giant, forgiving action-areas yet that still enable nearly pixel-level resolution and fine steps of speed/acceleration.
Depending on your device, scrolling in many directions might be very, very easy. Large trackpads, the Apple 'Magic Mouse', and most touch screens can make scrolling far more easy, adaptive, and intuitive than even 'forward' and 'back' buttons.
I tend to think people most peeved by scrolling as a major navigational technique (in both space and time) are still using tiny trackpads, mice with nubby scroll wheels, or even (shudder) ThinkPad-like joysticks or keyboard arrows. Stone knives and bearskins!
Does this apply to you?
- austenallred 13y agoI honestly never watch demo videos. They go too slow, they're usually painfully cheesy, and I hate that I have to listen to them. I read much faster than the narrator talks. A video for this demo probably would have lasted 1:30 or so. I was able to scroll through in about fifteen seconds, didn't have to find headphones to do so, and got all of the same information.