Wow, the cardinal sin of flash movies at work: designing a custom,
substandard scrollbar for a long list.
This one is amazingly common in big company implementations -- albeit,
typically executed by clueless marketing agencies (e.g.
http://flickr.com/photos/andyed/2349064850/)
The scroll bar:
1) Doesn't take arrow based scrolling
2) Doesn't take scroll wheel
3) Doesn't do keypress scroll ahead
4) Doesn't indicate length of list for approximation of A-Z distance
5) Has an unclear affordance as a click triggers a page load,
potentially promoting user error
I'll admit I appreciate the aesthetics of the load animation tied to the
scroll bar, but with the Flex UI library for Flash, it's possible to
create custom scroll bars that comply with basic HIG principles. Gotta
upgrade to actionScript 3 tho, and that's kinda painful.
Jeez, is it 1998 again?
-Andy
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