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Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions |
Date: |
Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:18:25 +0900 |
Nix writes:
> FWIW the object I have always imagined is scrolling down is 'the user's
> viewport'.
You have imagination in places I don't even have places! :-) (In my
mental model there's nothing in a hole that you can scroll.)
> So 'scroll down' and 'scroll the text up' are synonymous, but the
> latter is almost never used, since everyone's mental model these
> days is of unchanging text and a freely moving viewport over the
> top of it.
And that's why it's so intuitive that Google Maps gives you a hand to
grab the map with, and the map moves in the direction the hand goes?
That's why I get vertigo when I drag the scrollbar thumb down and the
text scrolls up?
While I don't dispute that your model is what describe, and don't
really have any ground to claim it's a minority view, I believe that
"everybody's mental model" is rather more nuanced. Not to mention
"plural". :-)
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, (continued)
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, martin rudalics, 2012/11/10
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/10
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, martin rudalics, 2012/11/10
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, martin rudalics, 2012/11/09
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/09
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, martin rudalics, 2012/11/10
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Stephen Leake, 2012/11/08
- RE: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Drew Adams, 2012/11/08
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Nix, 2012/11/08
Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Dmitry Gutov, 2012/11/06
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Richard Stallman, 2012/11/06
- RE: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Drew Adams, 2012/11/07
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/07
- RE: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Drew Adams, 2012/11/07
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/07
- RE: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Drew Adams, 2012/11/07