Scrolling divs using a script

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  • Hugh Dickinson

    Scrolling divs using a script

    Does anybody know whether the netscape 7+ browsers support afunction similar
    to the internet explorer doScroll() function, this has the effect of
    pressing the scrollbar button, but can be scripted allowing me to lose those
    horrible scrollbars.

    Regards

    Hugh Dickinson

    h.j.dickinson@d ur.ac.uk


  • Grant Wagner

    #2
    Re: Scrolling divs using a script

    Hugh Dickinson wrote:
    [color=blue]
    > Does anybody know whether the netscape 7+ browsers support afunction similar
    > to the internet explorer doScroll() function, this has the effect of
    > pressing the scrollbar button, but can be scripted allowing me to lose those
    > horrible scrollbars.[/color]

    You mean the horrible scrollbars provided by my Operating System that indicate
    there is more content on a canvas then I can see, and that I can get to that
    additional content by scrolling to it? Those horrible scrollbars that I am
    intimately familiar with and use on a daily basis? Those horrible scroll bars?

    Yes, please do replace those with some hacked up navigational structure that
    only works in some browsers, using client-side JavaScript I may or may not have
    enabled. After all, I wouldn't want to be able to navigate your site using *my*
    preferred browser UI.

    --
    | Grant Wagner <gwagner@agrico reunited.com>

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    * http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-deve...upgrade_2.html


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    • kaeli

      #3
      Re: Scrolling divs using a script

      In article <3FBA7288.5FFAE 5C1@agricoreuni ted.com>,
      gwagner@agricor eunited.com enlightened us with...
      [color=blue]
      >
      > You mean the horrible scrollbars provided by my Operating System that indicate
      > there is more content on a canvas then I can see, and that I can get to that
      > additional content by scrolling to it? Those horrible scrollbars that I am
      > intimately familiar with and use on a daily basis? Those horrible scroll bars?
      >
      > Yes, please do replace those with some hacked up navigational structure that
      > only works in some browsers, using client-side JavaScript I may or may not have
      > enabled. After all, I wouldn't want to be able to navigate your site using *my*
      > preferred browser UI.[/color]

      My Mom, a typical newbie internet user, can't even navigate sites that
      replace her normal scrollbars because she gets confused as to what she
      is supposed to click on.
      Heck, she didn't even know to click on the 'x' in the history thingy IE
      puts on the left side if you click on the history button, nor did she
      know you could resize it by dragging the little line.

      Not all users of the internet are Gen-Xers who figure computer things
      out easily. There are many of the over 40 set who rely on what they are
      used to. Javascript issues aside, consider your target users before
      completely screwing with their perception of how things are supposed to
      work.


      --
      ~kaeli~
      A backward poet writes... inverse.



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