- From: Walter Ian Kaye <boo@primenet.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 22:10:20 -0700
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
At 11:05p 07/01/95, Mike Batchelor wrote: >I have a suggestion for another style attribute: no-scrollbars. I don't >know about any of you, but I find it tiresome to use a scrollbar on a long >page, or have to shift to using the keyboard PgUp/PgDn keys to navigate. >My idea for a <style> attribute would turn off the browser scroll-bars (if >it has any), and use paging buttons instead to format the presentation (if >appropriate for the browser). I'm thinking of a set of buttons somewhere >on the controls for the browser, or on the page itself, which would let >you go one page forward, backwards, to the top, or to the bottom. > >I've sort of done this on some Web pages I am writing, by sizing each page >so that it fits into the window size of the popular Unix browsers, as they >show with the default resources. This gives the whole site a kiosk or >slide-show feel, and you can navigate through it with just mouse clicks. >Of course, a Windows user at 640x480 standard VGA is going to have to >scroll, or at least hit the PgDn key once to see all the pages (and reach >the link buttons I placed at the bottom of each page for navigation). > >Any comments? Re "no-scrollbars": No way, no how, nu-uh. Bad bad bad. Re browser buttons: Hear, hear! This is a good thing. Microsoft Excel and Word have facilities in their languages for creating button bars, and it would be super to have support for that in a web browser. -Walter # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Walter Ian Kaye: (415) 965-4517 FoxPro/Excel Programmer; Guitarist # # Correspond to: boo@primenet.com, boodlums@genie.com # # BinHex files: boo@primenet.com WWW: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
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