Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

[Warren Baird]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:44 AM, <rixed at happyleptic.org> wrote:

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> Reading an ebook or looking a webpage or a map is better with scrolling
> I guess.
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I've been using my FR with ePdfView to read books quite a bit lately, and I
always read a full screen of text and then click on the scrollbar to move to
the next screen of text.   I find it hard to track text on the screen if you
are continuously scroll - I think paging is a much better metaphor, at least
for ebook reading.

A map might be one situation where incremental scrolling is better than
paging - I certainly use it a lot on my desktop when using google maps, for
instance.

Warren



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Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist
http://www.synergisticimages.ca
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