Jonathan Wilson wrote: > Magnus W wrote: > >> Chris Hoess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Magnus W >>> wrote: >>> >>>> This is not crap. This will make it possible to use the wheel to >>>> scroll in DHTML scrollers, which is a quite useful feature... >>>> >>> ...for building even more ridiculously specific web pages. "This page >>> best viewed in IE 6--with a wheelmouse!" >>> >> >> You don't seem to understand the issue, or rather, are blinded by your >> anti-MS feelings. I say; this is a useful feature. I can provide >> examples of why it is a useful feature. >> >> Features are not evil. Exposing hardware events is not evil. >> Implementation may be bad, and maybe some more thought should have >> gone into that event model, but the fact that a web designer can >> capture all kinds of mouse events makes it easier to build advanced >> web applications. >> >> More object-oriented event handling WOULD be nice, though. >> > From what I understand of wheel mice, the way a mouse wheel works in > most programs (like office and so on) is that it scrolls the vertical > scroll bar. Is there anything usefull you could do with onmousewheel > that you couldnt do if IE just mapped the mouse wheel so that it > scrolled the vertical scroll bar? > >
Yes--you couldn't lock out people viewing the page with another Non-MS browser/OS!
