Well, the obvious criticism would be that you can't "jump screens"
horizontally like you can vertically. I HATE scrolling if I can avoid it,
and the slow scroll rate L to R bugs me.
Dr. Stephen Briggs - Dr. Liane Pitre
Optometrists 1701 3rd Ave. East, Owen Sound, Ont.
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From: T. R. Heathershaw-Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, November 30, 1998 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: WC:>: web user monitor sizes
>At 01:37 AM 11/27/98 +1000, Bruce said:
>>(snip) I even
>>came across a site the other day that was interesting, with no vertical
>>scrolling... all horizontal scrolling.
>>
>>http://arts.abc.net.au/headspace/triplej/creatures/scorcese/default.htm
>
>Nice stuff! Usually I find the horizontal sites irritating, because they
>seem to be more for "effect" than organization (there's a NY ad agency with
>a horiz site that drives me batty, because it seems so "oh aren't we
>special"). However, this site works for me. I think it's because the
>designers made each question a page -- and to be honest, chunking info like
>that works just as well horizontally as it does vertically. We aren't used
>to it being horizontal, but then again we weren't really used to scrolling
>at all when this whole web thing started, were we? Anyway, I find this a
>good format for this type of thing, as long as the information actually
>suits this type of treatment.
>
>--Tamra Heathershaw-Hart
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