Thread: Portrait Mode vs. Scrollbar
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mcdull is offline mcdull
2010-02-10 , 18:01
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Originally Posted by epage View Post
So let's see if I get this. What you are basically purposing is that there is a reserved area where the normal kinetic operations are turned into scroll operations? Kind of like how some trackpads on laptops have a special area for scrolling verse mouse movement?

So its not a full traditional scrollbar and does not cause application interference anymore than kinetic scrolling does.

I find it interesting. The main concern I would have is discoverability. Users might just perceive it as arbitrary/random behavior

I guess it would also cause issues with users having to care where they do their kinetic swipes.
Yes, pretty much like what you said.

I don't think it will cause more confusion than it is right now as some applications support kinetic scroll, some applicaitons might use scroll bar. When I went back to 5800 (not the lastest firmware supporting kinetic scroll), I tried to do kinetic scrolll on it .

The scroll bar on 5800 is not that wide, and actually I think it's a good size, certainly doesn't need to be as wide as some pictures above. If want to make it less confusing, can have a semi-transparent wider scroll bar shows up when the user drag around the scroll bar.

And when I use other apps on N900, I tried to do the zooming like in built-in web browser, but to my disappoinment, none of them use the same gesture including Nokia's own Ovi Maps.
Not sure if an API has been provided for that, but Nokia should have standardize the gestures and provide the API for all applications
Last edited by mcdull; 2010-02-10 at 18:03.