Live.com's search
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Marc Clifton wrote:
It's a shuttle, and as a shuttle, it works very well.
Oh, so that's called a shuttle. I can't think of any app (or website) off the top of my head that uses it. Is there a situation where a shuttle is just right for the job? They completely avoided the universal "scrollbar" paradigm so that I don't have to click a "next" link at the bottom of each page of links. Was it worth it?
David Kentley wrote:
Is there a situation where a shuttle is just right for the job?
When you have a choice between loads of pages (as in Google) or a scroll bar handle that is too small to click on. I think it works quite well there, its just not what you expect and doesn't look right but thats only because your used to Google.
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I just left the following feedback for live.com's search feature: I will not use live.com for searching until you put a normal scrollbar on the results page or, better yet, just use my browser's scrollbar. There are two reasons google.com is so popular: 1. They have a simple, fast, no frills yet elegant UI. 2. They provide great search results. I have not yet even bothered to check if #2 is true for you guys, because you have utterly failed with #1. The most glaring example of this failure is your silly scrollbar mechanism which is counterintuitive to every scrollbar I have ever used on Windows. I hope this helps. It amazes me how otherwise intelligent companies continue to misunderstand the web.
hmmm... firefox jumped up to about 80MB memory using their search :omg: I like the fact that you can just "scroll" down and down no nead to page - however I can't stand the "smooth scrolling" effect they have - it almost makes me feel sick trying to read it while moving. They should allow you turn this off just like in IE you can turn off smooth scrolling in the options.
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David Kentley wrote:
Is there a situation where a shuttle is just right for the job?
When you have a choice between loads of pages (as in Google) or a scroll bar handle that is too small to click on. I think it works quite well there, its just not what you expect and doesn't look right but thats only because your used to Google.
Team Leader - Team Code Project[^] :cool:
I found the mouse wheel works pretty well.
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I found the mouse wheel works pretty well.
Yes - click the mouse wheel within the list and you get the same effect but without having to hold it down :)
Team Leader - Team Code Project[^] :cool:
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I just left the following feedback for live.com's search feature: I will not use live.com for searching until you put a normal scrollbar on the results page or, better yet, just use my browser's scrollbar. There are two reasons google.com is so popular: 1. They have a simple, fast, no frills yet elegant UI. 2. They provide great search results. I have not yet even bothered to check if #2 is true for you guys, because you have utterly failed with #1. The most glaring example of this failure is your silly scrollbar mechanism which is counterintuitive to every scrollbar I have ever used on Windows. I hope this helps. It amazes me how otherwise intelligent companies continue to misunderstand the web.
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