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Research on scrolling within modal (web)? pros/cons?
From a web UI perspective, is there any research or defined best practices in regards to scrolling within a modal window? Please provide specific links, studies, etc.
I am of the school that a modal ...
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Are increase and decrease arrows redundant on scrollbars?
Surely these days users are either using touch devices to scroll with gestures or are dragging the thumb of the scrollbar or clicking inside the track. Would it be a bad idea to remove the arrow ...
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“Back to Top” alternate wording?
Seems that a "Back to Top" button is helpful and useful — especially for mobile sites.
However, on websites that want to come across as "classy", it may sound a little primitive.
Personally, I ...
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Horizontal scrolling of a small area on a desktop website
It seems that a new design patterns is becoming more popular in mobile apps. If you look at the latest release of the App Store they use a horizontal swipe pattern in order to navigate through various ...
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Submit button on top of the long form
For example user have Options page with long form in it. The most popular options are often on the top of the form, so user is changing them and have to scroll to the bottom of the form to hit ...
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Should I avoid using a scrolling div?
I am currently implementing a prototype of Lisa Tweedie's answer to my question about having too many checkboxes.
The prototype I am building will look quite similiar to this:
Problem:
I am working ...
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What is the name of this kind of pattern/component?
I would like to know what this approach is called. In case my incredibly high-fidelity mockups are too confusing, what I'm after is a design that explicitly links the thumb to the viewport by ...
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Why did scrolling vertically became a pattern?
Why do most of today's websites, especially news and blogs, use mostly vertical scrolling?
Also why has it become a pattern, that the more you scroll down you find older material, rather than ...
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Scrolling vs. Pagination for a Mobile Order Form
Ok here is my windows mobile application for ordering system. As client requested i added a next page button (the button after the +). This turns a page with preferences of a product. However most of ...
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How to improve discoverability of transient scrollbar?
Starting from Mac OS X Lion, scrollbars have been transient. That is, they disappear when your mouse stops moving. Some sites, like Facebook, even emulate this transient scrollbar for Windows users:
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Web App on PC & Tablet - Tablet cue for scrollable panel?
I have a web app that's meant to be targeted to both PC and tablet users. The app has two main "panes" side-by-side (a map and a legend, effectively), and I'm finding that the "scrollability" (did I ...
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Are custom scroll bars easier to use or do they just look “nice”?
I've noticed that a lot of webapps have started using custom scroll bars. A few examples include Facebook, Trello, Google Docs, and Twitter. I'm sure you can think of some more:
How do these types ...
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How to pan a panel in C# WinForms?
The panel has horizontal and vertical scrollbars and I'm trying to implement a way to pan the panel without using the scrollwheel because most people only have a vertical scroller.
Initially I was ...
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Scrollbars as a semi-transparent overlay
In most GUI implementations today, scrollbars take up a dedicated space next to the scrollable content. How about presenting scrollbars as a semi-transparent overlay on top of the scrollable content? ...
