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Comment by _dark_matter_ | Hacker News Reader

Are you kidding me? Sideways scroll with no way to use my scroll wheel? It's choppy and unreadable scrolling using the scrollbar, and using the right arrow is just too slow.

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I kind of felt that the slowness of using the right arrow to scroll was kind of the point. Even holding it down, you're moving significantly faster than light. And it still takes an age to get anywhere.

Just a hint shift+scroll wheel in a lot of cases will scroll horizontally.

shift+scroll appears to scroll me back and forth in my browser history (Using FF).

I've always used alt+scroll for horizontal scrolling.

Edit: doesn't seem to work on the linked page

Yep it doesn't. So actually, on chrome, without an autoscroll extension, there is no way to scroll that page (apart from the with the right cursor button, which is way to slow to actually be valid) on a normal desktop pc. Happy new world.

shift + mousewheel works for me in chrome (windows 7 and osx)

you can click in the scroll bar. It is fast enough. Better than holding the right button.

Thanks for that hotkey!

What the... Something is wrong with me. I've been paid to work with computers for about 16 years, and somehow I did not know this. Heh.

Thank you! :)

I think it was designed for a Macbook's excellent trackpad. That said, I can see how it would be really difficult to scroll without one.

This broke the "two finger right sweep" to return to the previous page (HN). I had to touch the back button on Safari. Felt horrible about that ...

I think that is Apple's mistake. I have to go into settings and turn the two finger pref/next pages to three, three finger spaces swipe to four just to avoid the problem you described.

And why the hell don't they enable "tab to all controls" by default?

Yes, still, I only "use" this feature by mistake.

especially because it's too easy to make it when scrolling up

Using a trackpad would mean I'm hunched over my laptop trying to destroy my back and neck further than I already have. Designing websites specifically for anti-ergonomic use cases is unwise.

Designing for one thing that's really good in a world of things that are average, isn't the best strategy. Reminds me of "Designed for IE6" and look where that got us.

I just clicked and held the middle mouse button to move to the right smoothly.

It is actually far too fast, several times the speed of light. If you really wanted to realize how vast and empty space is, you should make it scroll slower.

I think sticking to the speed of light for scrolling transitions would put things even more into perspective (though make the content a little harder to reach haha).

But if you make it realistic - have you thought of the actual size of those letters?

My scroll wheel has sideway tilt.

However I just used the navigation icons on the top.

There are no navigation icons showing for me: FireFox 11.0

shift + scroll wheel works okay, but really, it should have been scrolling vertically. horizontal scrolling doesn't really add anything to the site but inconvenience for the viewer.

Middle-click on empty space, move the mouse slightly right (or further, depending on the desired speed).

Annoying but I've just noticed there are icons to 'quick scroll'

The icons are the planetary symbols - e.g. the "female" symbol for Venus, the "male" symbol for Mars, and so on.

I just held down my right arrow key.

It was pretty nice on an iPad...

Sorry you have a shitty computer, or OS, or both.

And the main reason why we have web standards is that it should not matter how "shitty" your device is to access content on the web comfortably.

This web page uses a native OS scroll. Nothing to do with web standards.

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