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Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions |
Date: |
Sun, 04 Nov 2012 21:44:38 -0500 |
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>> We could fix that by explicitly mentioning it's vertical scrolling.
> Yes, but I guess we all agree that "up" is a cleaner, shorter and thus
> better name than "vertical backward".
Except that up/down bring with them the ambiguity.
> Mmmm, well, then maybe "scroll-view-" would be even better than
> "scroll-window-".
The problem is that most users don't even know about this "viewport vs
content" issue. So using "up/down" forces them to learn about this
ambiguity and how it's resolved.
That's the reason why I prefer a terminology that is not loaded with
ambiguity that we then have to explain away. BTW, next/prev is probably
easier to use than beginning/end.
Stefan
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, (continued)
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Richard Stallman, 2012/11/05
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Dani Moncayo, 2012/11/05
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Nix, 2012/11/05
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Teemu Likonen, 2012/11/05
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Harald Hanche-Olsen, 2012/11/07
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Bastien, 2012/11/13
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/13
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/11/04
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Dani Moncayo, 2012/11/05
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Jambunathan K, 2012/11/05
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Dani Moncayo, 2012/11/05
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/05
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Daniel Hackney, 2012/11/06
Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Richard Stallman, 2012/11/05
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Nix, 2012/11/05
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/11/05
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Adrian Robert, 2012/11/06
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/06
- RE: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Drew Adams, 2012/11/06
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, John Yates, 2012/11/06