Bouncing scroll bars in xCode
Bouncing scroll bars in xCode
- Subject: Bouncing scroll bars in xCode
- From: Jim Witte <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 23:57:02 -0400
On 29 Apr 2012, at 12:07 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote: Who is trying to "entertain the programmers" with bouncy, elastic scrollViews?
's not entertainment, any more than buttons that light up when you click them are, or windows that move in real time as you drag them.
I’m thinking this would make the basis for some tee-shirt like the “Developers Developers Developers Developers!” shirt back in 2004..
Anyway, the beginning of this thread was elastic scrollviews. Elastic scrollbars are possibly more of a problem than just “wasting time” - because programmers as opposed to “ordinary users” (using Word or TextEdit or whatever) are probably more likely to scroll down to the bottom of the window and “hit the end". Having the window “bounce” makes it harder to visually comprehend and lock on to the text until it stops moving (which probably takes at least 1/4 second).
And I wonder how much of the “time wasted” is really “real” rather than just psychological. As long as the processor can keep up with doing the animation while still taking care of other things the user is doing - how much time does a panel slide/expand/etc animation really take up?
Jim |
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