- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:27:42 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 12:04p -0600 08/14/97, Neil St.Laurent wrote:
>
> Nothing in the language was meant for horizontal scrolling,
> you can look all over the place in the language to find errors
> if horizontal scrolling is required.
>
> HTML as far as I can tell was designed for Portrait layout and
> pretty much lacks any capacity to do landscape layout.
Having to scroll in two directions is extra work for the user;
limiting scrolling to only one direction cuts the work in half.
And vertical scrolling is much more "natural" than horizontal
scrolling. I think this is based on gravity; if you go back in
time to when scribes published on actual *scrolls*, the scroll
orientation was usually vertical -- you could drop the lower
scroll to the ground and then read whilst operating only the
upper scroll. Try that with horizontal papyrus and your neck
will hurt. ;)
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