[OSX-Users] Re: Lion Mail.app

[Steve Harris]

On 2011-07-20, at 21:02, mc schraefel wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:55:10 +0100, Nick Gibbins <nmg at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>> On 20 Jul 2011, at 20:44, mc schraefel wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:42:56 +0000, Thanassis Tiropanis
>>> <tt2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> The argument on having all apple devices work the same way makes sense
> -
>>> i
>>>> might give it a 2h trial too :-)
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> tell me one can still quickly drag to the bottom or top of a doc or page
>>> down it,
>>> unlike the iphone where with no scroll bars theres no way to rush
> through
>>> a
>>> document from top to bottom -
>>> wish they'd fix that in iOS...
>> 
>> 
>> 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. 

There are of course keyboard shortcuts to jump on the Mac, which you don't have on an iOS device.

A lot of scrolling apps have that if you double tap the top of the screen, it will just back to the top, but not equivalent to the bottom. I more often want to jump up, so it's not too annoying.

- Steve