Originally Posted By: drakino
Originally Posted By: hybrid8
Auto-hiding scroll bars. How can you tell whether or not you should scroll up or down to reveal more content in a list? Sometimes it's easy, other times it's not. You certainly have no way of knowing where you are until you start to scroll. I've disabled the default in favor of always showing scroll bars (the old behavior).

This changes based on input device too. A system with just a touchpad will by default hide them, just as an iPad/iPhone/Android device does. A system with a mouse will show them by default. And on a laptop with a touchpad, they will unhide if a mouse is attached, and hide again if the mouse is unplugged.

That part makes sense, though I agree with Bruno that I'd always want them to show. I always assumed that mobile devices did this due to a lack of screen real estate. That's not necessary on a desktop/laptop.

I'm curious about what you guys think of the default behavior for scrolling, which I hear they've reversed to match the iPad/iPhone. Is that true? What do you guys think of it?


Edited by Dignan (21/07/2011 08:29)
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