- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>
- Date: 17 Aug 1997 23:21:17 +0100
- To: sjacct@worldnet.att.net
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Sat, 16 Aug 97 11:34:13, Peter Flynn wrote, among other things: "I think the last people to scroll horizontally were the ancient Egyptians." The last people to scroll horizontally include those employed in my accounting firm, working today, and using spreadsheets to aid in client Quite right, but I was talking about continuous text, not about tables. Even your accountants return to the left-hand edge once they have encountered the subtotals in the right-hand-most column: all they're doing is using a very wide virtual screen on a very narrow physical one. Rightward-scrolling papyruses start at one end and go on until they come to the far end, then stop, because the "words" are written/read _vertically_ down the height of the scroll. Different model. ///Peter
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