Sam Ewalt wrote:
> I don't know what you mean. Horizontal scrolling works exactly the
> same as vertical scrolling and seems to be exactly the same speed as
> well, at least for me.
When displaying text in a table of, say, 750 pixel width on a 640 wide
screen the user is required to continually scroll horizontally for each
line, so reading a passage takes much longer. Using Opera I would zoom
out, or apply my own style sheet, but Windows browsers scroll pretty
instantaneously, so it's less of a problem; using Arachne the slowness
of scrolling on _my_ machine is sufficiently annoying for me to shell
out and read the page in cache with ViewHTML, or consider the use of a
non-graphical browser.
Arachne would be more user-friendly with the "grabber" Clarence hoped
for, which could give a closer relationship between on-screen movement
and the scrolled distance along with combining vertical and horizontal
scrolling and optional removal of the scroll-bars.
Interestingly, Thomas's posts have often used a line length requiring
horizontal scrolling on a 640x480.
Regards,
Jake
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