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* Horizontal scrolling
* Scrolling when using pen/touch input on non-touch UIs
* Making it obvious that a content area is scrollable
* Providing context into how much content is visible vs. hidden, and where you are in the document
* Making it easy to scroll to a precise location without sitting there twiddling the wheel for minutes to go through something long
> My view is that content is king and any UI element that needlessly takes away space from the content needs to be destroyed.
Your view makes sense at 640x480. Maybe on a mobile screen. On a widescreen computer display, there's plenty of space for elegant UI controls.
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* Horizontal scrolling
* Scrolling when using pen/touch input on non-touch UIs
* Making it obvious that a content area is scrollable
* Providing context into how much content is visible vs. hidden, and where you are in the document
* Making it easy to scroll to a precise location without sitting there twiddling the wheel for minutes to go through something long
> My view is that content is king and any UI element that needlessly takes away space from the content needs to be destroyed.
Your view makes sense at 640x480. Maybe on a mobile screen. On a widescreen computer display, there's plenty of space for elegant UI controls.