- From: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 07:54:40 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
Walter Ian Kaye once wrote... > > 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. Ummmm.... Then perhaps I have misunderstood the <style> tag. I thought this was a place where the author could offer presentation suggestions, which the browser could implement, if it can, or if it was appropriate for the platform. Obviously, to-scroll-or-not-to-scroll has no meaning for a text-to-speech browser, and probably for lots of other applications. All I was suggesting was a way for an author to suggest to the browser that it should paginate the document, rather than scroll it, if the document was too long to fit on a single screen. -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/www/ %%%%%% "[IBM] ... has often been criticized by customers for its inability to supply systems in a timely fashion, but >>Ozzie Osborne<<, general manager of IBM's commercial desktop systems ... says recent enhancements ... are beginning to pay off..." [emphasis added] _Information Week_, May 22, 1995, page 26
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