On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Ian Fette <i...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Putting on my individual contributor hat here, I have to say that Ben's
> solution would seem very non-intuitive to me. I'm not aware of any app that
> works that way, and I would probably think that the dialog was just cut off
> (as is currently the case on my netbook), and would not expect to be able to
> somehow auto-scroll it by touching the edge. It seems to me that you would
> want to somehow visually indicate that there is more of this dialog to be
> seen, preferably show how much dialog is left to be seen and allow someone
> to move through that, at which point we're talking scroll bars...
Also throwing my hat into the ring to say that I don't think Ben's proposal
is great.
I think Ben's goal is to fight against options sprawl. Being hardnosed
about not adding scrollbars or tabs is a way to put pressure on to decrease
options menu size, rather than increase. I applaud this principle.
The thing is, if we're already offscreen, and we add a magic solution like
"autoscroll at screen edge" or any other similar solution, we effectively
have a scrollbar -- just a hard to use one. It's the worst of both worlds.
I would love to see us continually rip out more and more options. If we are
unable to do that, I think having a scrollbar is better than having a magic
scroll function.
PK
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