Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Scrollbar History

Jack Wellborn (John Gruber):

In Xerox’s demo, the scroll bar of one particular application has multiple scrolling operations depending on which mouse button is pressed that only get invoked when that same button is released. Even today’s users with decades old scroll bar experience would struggle to understand this implementation. I can’t imagine it being intuitive in 1982 when most computer users had no concept of a mouse driven user interface, let alone scrolls bars.

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