Re: Smooth Scrolling for NSScrollView
Re: Smooth Scrolling for NSScrollView
- Subject: Re: Smooth Scrolling for NSScrollView
- From: Jeff Johnson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:03:05 -0600
On Dec 14, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:
Smooth scrolling is an abomination anyway, by way of Microsoft, a
feature
that looked cool to some developer but has awful usability.
With line-by-line scrolling you can actually read the top or bottom
lines as
they go by, and determine your place in the document as it scrolls.
With
smooth scrolling, the text is a blur, and you must frequently stop
scrolling
in order to read a line and get re-oriented in the document.
I think you're missing the primary use case for smooth scrolling. If
you scroll line-by-line, it may perhaps be superior to have smooth
scrolling off, though I won't even grant that point automatically (I
don't find the text a 'blur'). In any case, for page-by-page
scrolling, I find smooth scrolling to be vastly superior. Without
smooth scrolling, the window just jumps immediately to a different
part of the document, and I find that disorienting. If you read a
document page-by-page, it's an abomination without smooth scrolling,
in my opinion.
-Jeff
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