Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 10th May 2008 21:49 UTC, submitted by Thorsten Wilms
As you may remember from our series on common usability terms, I have a lot of interest in graphical user interface concepts. In addition, I applaud anyone trying to improve existing concepts, people that try to think beyond set conventions to come up with an improved version of that concept, or a new concept altogether. Thorsten Wilms took on the well-established concept of the scrollbar, and came up with a few interesting tweaks.
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the whole idea behind the two finger gesture as opposed to the scroll pad to the right of your track pad is that you're not limited to a small area, which is generally what makes scroll bars somewhat unhandy, since you'll have to move the cursor to a specific area of the screen.
This is eliminated by the addition of the scroll wheel and in Apple's case the two finger gesture.