Thursday, November 10, 2011

Save the Scrollbar!

Don?t let this happen! As a humble technology columnist, I have no power to bring back scrollbars, but I can beseech you, computer users of the world, to stand up for your right to see where you are in a document. Disappearing scrollbars represented a true advance in mobile interface design, but?in the same way that a touchscreen isn?t the best interface for every device?these ephemeral scrollbars don?t make sense on larger screens. There are ways to create scrollbars that are both aesthetically pleasing and useful. In its latest release, the open-source operating system Ubuntu includes skinny scrollbars that expand when you mouse over them; when your cursor isn?t in a window, the skinny scrollbars remain, telling you that there?s stuff you?re not seeing. It?s a simple, elegant solution, one that proves that scrollbars can adapt to modern times. This should be a lesson to Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. Scrollbars have so much more to give us. Please don?t kill them before it?s their time to go.

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=8bd9fec7ceed0d7b5c05757b647d3ab5

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