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From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
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Subject: Re: ScrollBar design question
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Date: 24 Jun 91 20:19:24 GMT
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In-reply-to: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG's message of 23 Jun 91 00:37:42 GMT


In article <305426.2865D1B9@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:

>dmittman@beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Mittman) writes:
>
>DM> My office-mate repeatedly questions the wisdom of the Apple engineers 
>DM> who designed the standard scrollbars. He would like to know why 
>DM> the thumb (box) is not proportional, i.e. show how much information 
>DM> of the total information content of the window is currently being 
>DM> displayed, rather than positional. 
>
>Maybe they wanted the Windows developers to have _something_ original to claim?
>

Windows doesn't do this, either.  Amiga does, however.

jas
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