Re:Scrollbar Blindness
by marmshallow on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:16AM
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While folks are rightfully bashing macOS’s hidden scroll bars, I would like to advertise an iOS feature that is actually pro-scroll bar. As of iOS 13, you can grab the scroll bar to scroll at hyper speed rather than repeatedly flicking the screen. Not sure if there’s a proper name for this feature but it’s explained here https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/08/05/scroll-faster-iphon...
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Re:Scrollbar Blindness
by plorkyeran on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:44AM
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We used to call that "using the scroll bar".
iOS devices were not nearly performant enough to allow that until recently ;)
Not sure if you're being serious or not... I mean I thought these iPhones were faster than PCs. I've been able to scroll since I had my first 486.
I'm being serious. The first iPhones were years behind comparable desktop hardware of the time. It's only recently that iPhones have caught up and surpassed them.
> you can grab the scroll bar to scroll at hyper speed
I think it's called using a scrollbar. :) That's typically how they work.
To spare readers the content marketing piece: tap and hold to grab it.
That wasn't how they worked on nearly any modern multi-touch capacitive touchscreen device.
Re:Scrollbar Blindness
by Infinitesimus on Thursday August 27, 2020 @08:26PM
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Android scrollbars have worked that way for quite a while iirc. Not sure about windows phone but I don't see why MS would change that behavior.
Re:Scrollbar Blindness
by mcstafford on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:45PM
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I've taken to using a fling motion on my Android devices since grabbing the position indicator in a scrollbar is comparatively inconvenient... but performance is fine.
Re:Scrollbar Blindness
by reportgunner on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:00AM
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Are you saying that you had to repeatedly flick the screen before iOS 13 ?
This "feature" has been available on every Windows, Linux and Android device I have ever used.