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Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by kafkaesque » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:06 PM UTC

welder wrote: post #102

kafkaesque wrote: post #63

I was born with pretty severe strabismus and underwent a few major eye surgeries throughout my life. One of the side effects of being born with this condition is missing lines when reading a book. Growing up with computers, I always found it a little difficult to follow long lines of text or the next line as I scroll. I'm a lot older now and hardly have these problems, if ever at all. I've pretty much perfected guess…

Try this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/lca... It color codes lines aiming to solve missing or loosing your place while reading.

Thanks! I gave it a quick whirl and couldn't get it working on websites. It never captured the proper text (e.g., on latimes.com).

I'll try it out tonight.

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by Buzaga » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:07 PM UTC

Just to balance the negative choir, I really liked this, it felt more natural, maybe there's a thing or two that could be improved, but it's really good...

Personally, I can't find a comforting way to read on the web(and I read a lot), most of the time I'll go selecting text(sometimes with the keyboard, sometimes with the pointer) but then it will feel tiring or weird doing that and I'll switch to just scrolling bit-a-bit, but then I'll start losing track of the line I'm at and go back to selecting, I feel this approach is much better than this.

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by jenius » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:09 PM UTC

I feel like if there was a gradient fade (white to transparent) above the black line it would make me feel much better. immediately revealing more text just above where I was reading when I scroll kind of confuses me

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by lurkinggrue » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:10 PM UTC

Did not like this and not obvious. I was just clicking on the arrows to page though.

Only after reading the comments I went back and used a scroll wheel. The lack of any feedback that you could scroll was annoying.

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by rdwallis » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:11 PM UTC

chrisdes wrote: post #72

I like it, but few lines at the end of first page are truncated. But rest of the pages are just fine. Good work though.

Any chance you can send a screenshot of the truncated text to support@magicscroll.net?

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by viraj_shah » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:11 PM UTC

This with Instapaper could be a cool combination to create a smooth reading flow while eliminating distractions and saving articles or stories for later.

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by kybernetikos » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:12 PM UTC

artursapek wrote: post #16

Do you have evidence to support your claim that the true problem is moving words? I'm really not convinced. I feel especially with OS X's inertial scrolling that I can naturally keep track of where I am in an article while scrolling, it has never bothered me. This just feels like fancy pagination. I tried partially scrolling ahead as I was reading and it disoriented me further, because the upcoming text was showing u…

In fact, speed readers generally move the words, because moving the eyes slow down your reading. You're basically blind during a saccade.

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by charlesju » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:12 PM UTC

This is so much better, but perhaps it would work even better if the text being scrolled in is blank until the full page is scrolled through. It is distracting to see the end of the next page while reading the end of the first page.

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by frading » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:13 PM UTC

I find that really interesting. And much more relaxing. It took only a couple scrolls to get used to. The only thing I miss when reading an article is getting a global view of it. I usually do that by scrolling all the way down and back up. The percent at the bottom does not fully help I think. Maybe a global view like what sublime text has on the right? (http://www.sublimetext.com/)

Re: I want the world to scroll this way

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Post by Kilimanjaro » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:14 PM UTC

While I applaud creative thinking, I want to say no, thanks.

I hate scrolling to be honest, I lose concentration when everything moves and kind of makes me dizzy.

I like some ways I've seen on the ipad to paginate info without scrolling. No, I hate the pagination effect.

So, in essence, no scrolling, no visual distraction, just show me a page on the screen, then the next, then the next.

Like a magazine.

It is your business, as web designer, to fit content in a page and auto adjust it to my resolution, without breaking the intended relation between text and images, and without distracting me.

Like a book.