The scroll bar is quite effective in my opinion, it smooths out the scrolling, shows where the page is currently, and looks pretty. It's better than a normal scroll bar because on a large wave, that normal scroll bar would be about 4 pixels high and impossible to click, instead you always have a nicely sized scrollbar that can scroll with ease. Sure, you need to move slowly if in a large wave, but if you need to go to a specific section with ease, it's quite user-friendly. It did take some getting used to, but I find that I wish more websites used a fixed-height scrollbar.
As for the notification system, it's a bit different than normal. Instead of adding something at the bottom, it updates the time in the top-right corner of the blip. That time is the time of the last modification, rather than first creation. Edits that happen to a portion of the wave you aren't looking at is based upon whether or not a blip is selected. If you click a blip, Wave will select it. Any other blip that is edited or created will be highlighted with a brighter green color than the selection color. No matter what, if someone edits a blip and the connections are good, you should see a cursor with the editor's name on it as they type (with characters appearing in relative real-time). On Dec 1, 10:23 pm, Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > I received my Google Wave invite this morning and have been on it all > day. I have realized that the scroll bar on the side is awkward and I > often found myself scrolling past what I wanted to get to. While in a > large wave, it was hard to keep up while trying to fumble around with > the scroll bar. It is the only imperfection with such a brilliant > collaborative tool. I would recommend just using a classic side scroll > bar just to make it easier. Also, I noticed that in such a big wave, > you couldn't tell who edited what and when. I noticed sometimes it put > their name and time at the bottom, but sometimes it doesn't. I like > when it highlights things you missed when you were out of the wave, > but it would be nice if it would highlight things when you weren't > viewing that section of the wave at that time. Please feel free to > agree or disagree with my comments or add me to your contacts at > [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en.
