- From: Neil St.Laurent <neil@bigpic.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 13:09:39 -0600
- To: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
> 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. ;) Just because history didn't do it doesn't mean we shouldn't consider the possibilies of using horizontal scrolling. Consider that a book with pages is essentially horizontal scrolling when you flip the pages... Horizontal scrolling is great for: -accounting ledgers -time sheets -other charts -columnar display of multiple databse records -natural looking tree displays __ | Mortar: Advanced Web Development <http://bigpic.com/mortar/> | Neil St.Laurent neil@bigpic.com | Big Picture Multimedia
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