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Re: Should a scroller be visible or not?
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Re: Should a scroller be visible or not?


  • Subject: Re: Should a scroller be visible or not?
  • From: Gordon Apple <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:49:58 -0500

    From an authoring point of view, it's not all that bad.  For creating a
multimedia read-only text field, automatic scroll bars are a very GOOD
feature.  It is nice to have a single type of fixed-size text field that
will automatically add scrolling when the text extends past the field's
physical extent.  This is especially true if you intend to do a multilingual
text field where you are not sure what length the field is going to be when
translated to another language.  It is also good where you have optional
user-selectable font size for those of us that don't read fine-print so well
anymore.


--
Gordon Apple
Ed4U
Little Rock, AR
email@hidden




> Consider what happens when you're in the middle of typing and you get
> to the point where you need a scroll bar. Since the content area in a
> Mail compose window wraps as you type and re-wraps if you resize the
> window, if we auto-hid the scroller, popping it in at the first
> instant it was needed would cause all of the text in the window to re-
> wrap. Visually jarring and horribly confusing, no?

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