{"id":9214,"date":"2014-07-22T15:22:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T19:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9214"},"modified":"2014-07-22T15:22:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T19:22:06","slug":"scrollbar-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/22\/scrollbar-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrollbar History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wormsandviruses.com\/2014\/07\/its-windowful-life.html\">Jack Wellborn<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2014\/07\/22\/scrollbar-history\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.wormsandviruses.com\/2014\/07\/its-windowful-life.html\"><p>In Xerox&rsquo;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&rsquo;s users with decades old scroll bar experience would struggle to understand this implementation. I can&rsquo;t imagine it being intuitive in 1982 when most computer users had no concept of a mouse driven user interface, let alone scrolls bars.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Wellborn (John Gruber): In Xerox&rsquo;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&rsquo;s users with decades old scroll bar experience would struggle to understand this implementation. I can&rsquo;t imagine it being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,295,516,531],"class_list":["post-9214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-history","tag-lisa","tag-xerox"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9215,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9214\/revisions\/9215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}