[OSX-Users] Re: Lion Mail.app

[Nick Gibbins]

On 20 Jul 2011, at 21:02, mc schraefel wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:55:10 +0100, Nick Gibbins <nmg at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>> Not that I can see, alas. Your options are either the two finger scrabble
>> (I think that they've turned up the inertia when scrolling, which helps),
> 
>> or trying to drag the new slimline (and harder to grab) scrollbar.
> 
> wow 
> i just don't see the advantage of this change or why reduce the size of a
> target by making the scroll bar slimmer. that's quite bizarre. 


Thanks to the change in inertia, the two finger swipe-scroll does seem to 
be quite reasonable. I've just tried scrolling through a webpage that runs 
to thirty-three page, and it takes 3-4 swipes to go from top to bottom.

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