Re: [OT] Strange Scroll Bar Behaviour

["John Andrews" <groups@xxxxxxx>]

Keith

It does not show these symptoms on automatedhome, but does on ebay ... yep
confussed too.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:41 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Strange Scroll Bar Behaviour


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon Beech [mailto:simon@xxxxxxx]
>
> >
> > Bizarrely, it's not a bug. It appears to be a poorly-implemented
new
> > "feature."
> >
> > The vertical scroll bar--- sometimes called the
"elevator" bar--- is now
> > distance sensitive. If you click near the slider, you'll scroll
up or
> > down one screen, as before. If you click far away from the
slider,
> > you'll advance two screens.
> >
> > It makes a kind of sense, unless--- like millions of users,
including
> > me-
> > -- you're used to parking the mouse at the top or bottom of the
scroll
> > area and clicking on that one spot to read through a document one
page
> > at a time. Now, that no longer works, and you have to reposition
the
> > mouse after each click.
> >
>
> Having seen Simon's reply I thought I had better recheck in case I was
> talking rubbish.
>
> I have just retried it on the AutomatedHome front screen because its a
nice
> long page and irrespective of whether I click just below the slider or
right
> at the bottom of the scroll bar it only does a single page (well
slightly
> less than a screen, about 95%).
>
> Something I did last night "fixed" this
"feature"... or broke it!!!
>
> I did download one patch from Microsoft last night but during
installation
> it said some DLL's were newer than the ones it wanted to install so I
chose
> to keep the existing one.
>
> I'm REALLY confused now
>
> Keith
>
>
>
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