- From: Walter Ian Kaye <boo@primenet.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 12:28:44 -0700
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
At 12:48p 07/02/95, Mike Batchelor wrote: >Walter Ian Kaye once wrote... >> >> 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 >> > >> >Any comments? >> >> >> Re "no-scrollbars": No way, no how, nu-uh. Bad bad bad. > >Why why why. Flat declarations do little to illuminate your thinking. 1. Scrollbars are platform-specific, HTML is platform-independent. 2. Use (or non-use) of scrollbars is a personal preference. 3. Page size is platform-specific, so there is no way your page could know whether it fits on a given screen (and even if it did, HTML does not have if/then/else programming constructs. 4. Not all keyboards have page up/down keys. See item 1. 5. You would give a Macintosh user a heart attack. See item 1. -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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