- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:32:54 -0700
- To: alice.lieutier@gmail.com
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:36 PM, <alice.lieutier@gmail.com> wrote: >> We believe that the time to scroll should be based on the distance, >> which means you can't put it in the author's hands at all. > This choice seems very strange to me: > > - first because it's not what most js libraries do. > - secondly because on a very long document (say a w3c spec page) scrolling up and down at constant speed means instant scroll for nearby sections and still very long scroll time for far apart sections. I said "based on", not "linear to". Long scrolls should take longer than short scrolls, but *very long* scrolls should take only slightly longer than long scrolls, if at all. The construction of a good-looking timing function for a given scroll length is definitely non-trivial. ~TJ
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