The Scrollwheels of Your Mind
Comments: 11
I’m just noticing how pleasant Safari’s scrolling behaviour is. You don’t need to click to give focus to the object you want to scroll (page, textarea, &c.). Spin the wheel back to start scrolling down a page and if you come to a textarea containing content that overflows its display, Safari scrolls the textarea, at the end of which scrolling resumes on the page itself. If the textarea display has already been scrolled to its end as you scroll down a page, scrolling remains with the page itself. Scrolling back up past the textarea display scrolls its contents to the beginning before continuing up the page.
It’s scrolling how my mind works.
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Posted to Computers • 2003.06.01 (Sun) • 12:02
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Posted by Jon Gales 2003.06.01, 13:10
Funny that it works so well since Apple is anti-anything-with-more-than-one-button. I too enjoy my scroll wheel and Safari’s actions. Can’t say I use Safari though :P
Posted by liorean 2003.06.01, 19:00
Well, that’s the behavior that mozilla/derivates exhibits too…
Posted by matthew 2003.06.01, 19:48
i think thats more of an os thing (although MS stuff seems to ignore it especially office where even my page down button on the keyboard doesnt work!) - as in itunes you can move the mouse over the pane and scroll, and also in the finder you dont have to activate the windows just be over them.
i think its just that IE doesnt do it properly.
Posted by Jules le Renard 2003.06.01, 20:23
Matthew, I disagree. IE has been doing this as far as I remember (and I’m a long time user).
On a PC of course ;-)
Posted by matthew 2003.06.01, 20:26
doesnt work for me, it scrolls sure, but not within frames or iframes or whatever.
Posted by dowingba 2003.06.02, 10:57
Mozilla will scroll whatever your mouse pointer is hovering over, no need to click, just hover over a text area and it’ll scroll just fine.
Posted by Tomas 2003.06.03, 06:53
Just the way IE (on Windows) does it, or am I missing something?
Posted by dowingba 2003.06.04, 23:15
Of course, I use the plugin “Smoothwheel” for Mozilla, makes scrolling the most exciting part of browsing anyway.
Posted by matthew 2003.06.05, 02:34
tomas - yes, this is about makes hence ‘safari’.
Posted by matthew 2003.06.06, 03:10
err about “Macs” not sure what happened there
Posted by leo 2004.04.22, 03:37
hi, i have just made a website in iframes for a change, www.othersideband.tk but the iframe scroll bar doesnt work in macs, is there anything i can do to make it work? or is it just that macs are too crap and nobody shud really buy them, thanks. leo please reply…..
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