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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: April 10, 2003 why scrollbars are on the right (Alan Dix) -- "The There are good reasons to think that the left-hand side may be the better choice, but in virtually every interface since the Xerox Star the scrollbar has appeared on the right-hand side."
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Why put a relatively hard to target arrow on each end of the bar? Luckily the center bar works in either direction and is larger. Posted by: on April 10, 2003 11:14 AM
An interesting article - but many people now use a mouse with a scrollwheel (at least on Windows), which would seem to mitigate some of the problems mentioned in the article. Posted by: Lord Scrumptious on April 11, 2003 02:28 PM
Interesting article. I'd like to see a similar article on why some os/app interfaces have gravitated down to the bottom of the page as default, and what the impact of the browser has had in 'offline' apps. Posted by: Alex Barnett on April 11, 2003 03:28 PM
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