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Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by wtracy »

cryptoz wrote: post #49
bengillies wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate to be picky (well actually...), but you appear to be complaining about a bug on the site causing all content to disappear and then concluding that the scrolling effect is rubbish. Your conclusion may be valid, but I don't think the bug you found has anything to do with it.

Maybe, but I don't think so. Content also disappears if you scroll using the mouse wheel (but more slowly, so there is some indication on how to get it back). However, nowhere else on the entire web does scrolling ever remove content from the page. I've never seen that happen, and there are multiple ways to accidentally remove content from this page. Maybe it's just a bug, but it seems intentional and it ruins the ex…

Every time I scroll down a web page, content disappears off the top of the screen.

Are we talking about the same thing?

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by nosse »

lazyGeneral wrote: post #39

There is a bug where when I scroll to the next page, all the old text from the previous page still shows. (using latest firefox on OS X) It would be nice to use this method with some texts I want to read...but definetley not all. Can't scan. Probably would be really good to read an academic paper I really want to grasp a second time. Good experiment! Edit: (Since it said it was Chrome only...tried it with Chrome, tex…

It's not a bug, its a feature.

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by crymer11 »

wtracy wrote: post #77
msutherl wrote: post #66

1. One downside of this interface is that it's difficult to keep track of where you are. The scroll metaphor is broken and the pagination metaphor is not fully implemented (you need an indicator of where you are, like pages in a real book). The percentage indicator doesn't cut it. 2. Control feels too fine. It's too easy to lose your place and mental effort needs to be devoted to properly placing the page divider. I…

If you scroll using a touchpad the divider moves exactly one text line at a time. The problem is "clicky" mouse wheels that try to enforce their own units of movement.

Not on my Macbook Pro running the latest Chrome on Mac OS 10.8. I'm able to move the divider and show partial lines of both the old and new text.

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by jxdxbx »

I like pagination. I use pagination whenever possible available to read on my tablet or phone. I don't use pagination on my normal computer because it doesn't fit in, but I do prefer pagination to scrolling.

But, I don't like this.

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

#85

Post by undershirt »

Wow! I think this is a remarkable alternative scrolling method. Instead of the current "camera-panning" across a single long page, this "unrolls" the next page over the previous.

It matches the aesthetic of a printed book, but differently through this "unrolling" model. I think it's a great blend between a book and a single screen. The words are fixed, but you still have the smooth moving window of what's before and after your current sentence.

And perhaps this is less important but neat: it allows you to remember where certain passages were by position on the page since they don't move.

Great job on this. I'll be trying it out in the coming weeks.

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by rhizome »

jiaaro wrote: post #28

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 pa…

It's the difference between moving the page and moving your eyes.

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by B-Con »

When reading a lot of text, I usually scroll about a page at a time and I scroll once I've read about 80% of the page. I don't have text constantly moving around and breaking my concentration.

Rather than this, I'd rather just have a "80% screen down" scroll option.

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