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Why are you using page down? No scroll wheel, old habits, on a laptop? Its something I've never used and have never thought about while designing, seems like a
by alexpenny 14y ago
Why are you using page down? No scroll wheel, old habits, on a laptop?
Its something I've never used and have never thought about while designing, seems like a lot of websites are ignoring it as well; fb, techcrunch etc.
- wukkuan 14y agoI use space for page down and shift+space for page up. Scrolling means tracking where I am as I go, when I hit page down I know where to start reading, the top. It feels more like reading a book.
- brigade 14y agoIt's hard to get more optimal than "read a page of text" "press button for next page". Scroll wheels require some combination of * Have to move it more to travel the same distance * Have to fiddle with it to get exactly one page * Have to track your position during the scroll * Have to scroll more often than once per page This (among numerous other near-universal UX transgressions) has gotten to the point that my first action on almost any internet article is to hit ⇧⌘R.
- alexpenny 14y agoI've always read at the center of the page while scrolling. It's what I've noticed most everyone my age doing. Maybe it's generational, I've only been at this since windows ME.
- jsankey 14y agoMaybe because he wants to go exactly one page down as easily as possible, and this is something that has generally worked for decades. It's pretty simple, really.
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- alexpenny 14y agoWow brilliant!