David Emery OnlineOn Turning The Page
17 May 2010
Just let me scroll, please? I’ve been reading stuff off the screen seriously for what, 15 years? More? Scrolling is fine, you know.
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the whole “pages versus scrolling” thing and I have to say I’m veering towards – at least on touch-based devices – pages being preferable. On the desktop, with scroll-wheel mice, scrolling works well but the incessant “swipe, swipe, swipe” method on mobile devices is pretty tiresome – especially as commonly there’s no quick way of jumping ahead like there is in a regular scrolling environment (which is one of the key benefits of scrolling).
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