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Re: iPad2 Scroll Bars ??

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Dr J R Stockton wrote on 23 dec 2011 in comp.lang.javascript:

> In comp.lang.javascript message <9lhalvFvm9U1@mid.individual.net>,
> Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:19:41, Mel Smith <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
> posted: 
> 
>>    Is there any way using  Javascript to force Safari for mobile
>>devices to display scroll bars beside a table when vertical content
>>overflows ?
>>
>>    (I have a 613-row table that is agonizing to vertically scroll
>>    using the 
>>one-finger swiping method)
> 
> If space permits, you could show buttons to move up/down by, say,
> +/-100 & +-10 lines, which may well be less painful.
> 
> If searching through a list of names, you could also shift by +-1
> place in the first letter (max +-13, if it rolls A-Z Z-A, then +-1 in
> the second letter.  It might or might not help to skip absent
> combinations (few names begin Qg, for example).

This is only true if you think the user just wants to scan visually 
though the "list", like a paper phone-book we once used long ago,
and which excel-lovers still want to implement. 

Scripting, imho serverside, can and should do better.

Methinks the user also or primarily wants to view a single entry or a 
subgroup of entries with a common feature, like street-address or 
agegroup or last-name.

So give the user some selective options on the individual fields or even 
on a combination of fields or perhaps a substring on any field.

The programmer should not just ask what the user wants, but offer him or 
her solutions never dreamed of and perferably monitor what of those 
solutions are in fact used. The programmer should act upon the monitoring 
by removing the not used ones or making them more logical to the users 
mind.

If the returned subset is small enough, a list is not even a nice way of 
showing the results. multiline blocks could be much better readable, if 
they fit in one pageview without scrolling.


-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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iPad2 Scroll Bars ?? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-12-22 11:19 -0700
  Re: iPad2 Scroll Bars ?? "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-22 19:19 +0000
    Re: iPad2 Scroll Bars ?? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-12-22 12:54 -0700
      Re: iPad2 Scroll Bars ?? "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-22 20:23 +0000
        Re: iPad2 Scroll Bars ?? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-12-22 14:55 -0700
          Re: iPad2 Scroll Bars ?? "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-22 22:32 +0000
          Re: iPad2 Scroll Bars ?? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-23 09:43 +1100
          Re: iPad2 Scroll Bars ?? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2011-12-23 14:56 +0100
            Re: iPad2 Scroll Bars ?? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-12-23 08:54 -0700
  Re: iPad2 Scroll Bars ?? Dr J R Stockton <reply1151@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-23 20:18 +0000
    Re: iPad2 Scroll Bars ?? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-24 11:56 +1100
    Re: iPad2 Scroll Bars ?? "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-24 09:01 +0000
      Re: iPad2 Scroll Bars ?? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-12-24 11:56 -0700

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