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In article 17065@sophia.smith.edu, jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber) writes:
>In article <oefiyZO00VAt5mSIYY@andrew.cmu.edu> fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat) writes:
>I always took proportional scrollbars for granted until I
>recently started working on a Mac.  If you are going to use up
>precious screen space with scroll bars, they should at least
>convey as much useful information as possible.  In a text editor,
>for example, with a proportional scroll bar you can at a quick
>glance not only tell where you are in a document, but how big the
>document is.  
>
>It really baffles me why other window systems have not adopted
>proportional scroll bars.  It is not like they are a new concept
>or something---the Amiga has been using them for about 7 years
>now.  (And I seriously doubt Commodore would try to sue anybody
>else who used them!)

Hmmm..... Motif scroll bars are proportionally sized, and Open Look scroll bars
have a fixed handle, but if you look, the solid line on the scrollbar gives you a
proportional bar....

It's only brain dead window systems that have naff "fixed block" scroll bars


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