Talk:Scrolling

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Suggestion to merge with Scrolling (computing)[edit]

Hmmm, do we really need two separate articles for this? IMHO, "scrolling in video games" is more or less the same as "scrolling in computing", at least to the degree that we could cover all in one article (w/sections for each theme, incl TV's "text crawls"). --Wernher 11:23, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The topic certainly does not justify two separate articles. Feel free to merge them :) But IMHO a better explanation would be helpful as well. --Tjansen 21:12, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

So there. Done. I did some copyediting as well, and I feel the current explanation isn't too bad (but as always, it can be improved). I listed the Scrolling (computing) article on VfD. --Wernher 00:28, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

General Cleanup[edit]

I listed this on WP:CU, saying

Scrolling (computing) was merged into it, and IMO improvements made in each of them, w/o a successful restructuring into one article with a logical flow and w/o sufficient development to permit judging whether the merge was a good idea. See Talk:Scrolling for specifics.

IMO needs more clarity abt what applies to text, what to graphics, what to both; how the two cases differ, where 1-D scrolling is useful & where 2-D required; implicit mention of word-wrap fleshed out; distinction between how "scrolling is done" as the computations that implement the apparent motion or as the choice of input mechanism provided to the user for signaling their desire for apparent motion; distinction between virtual motion in one direction of the virtual window and virtual motion in the opposite direction of the virtual document behind the window.

--Jerzy (t) 02:46, 2004 Nov 2 (UTC)

I took a stab at it and removed {{cleanup}} for now. I think that if it needs more information, someone can list it on WP:PNA. nine thirty-five 02:02, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Page interference[edit]

Back in the late '80s on Quantum Link, "scrolling" referred to a practice used to disrupt chat rooms. Someone(s) would type one key, press <return>, and repeat this process dozens of times as quickly as possible. This caused the screen to quickly fill up with meaningless one-character entries, each taking up a whole line and pushing relevant conversation up towards (and beyond) the top of the page. I don't know how widespread or long-lived the term is/was, but perhaps this definition merits a mention on the page, or is it called something else now? 128.255.247.152 18:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Super Bug?[edit]

What is Super Bug? It links to a disambiguation page and I don't think that any of the choices given on that page make sense for the correct link. – Lilwik 23:00, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Illustration[edit]

Please someone put up a simple gif-animation Electron9 (talk) 16:08, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bulletin Boards[edit]

At least in the UK, the word "scrolling" was used to identify text based bulletin boards from the (mainly UK) based viewdata based boards. The former would just fill the screen and scroll it upwards as more text appeared; the latter was a frame based service - everything was formatted to use the 40 char by 24 line screen and should you attempt to move off the bottom of the screen, the cursor would reappear at the top. Robirrelevant (talk) 18:43, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki allows articles to include more than one word sense, so this could be added to the article. My guess, however, is that most readers would not see it -- and certainly adding that information to the top of the article would confuse 95% of the readers.

Given that some words have dozens of word senses, one other Wiki option is to start another article, say called: Scrolling (UK bulletin boards). Regards, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 22:07, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kinetic Scrolling[edit]

Kinetic Scrolling should not redirect here without being explained here. 85.176.202.177 (talk) 17:29, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Section on portable scrolling[edit]

Referencing the recent patent http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8223134.PN.&OS=PN/8223134&RS=PN/8223134 given to Apple for scrolling on mobile devices — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raunaqg (talk • contribs) 14:16, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Infinite scrolling[edit]

Infinite scrolling redirects here, but is not mentioned anywhere. Perhaps a short section explaining why it is evil? 145.129.237.245 (talk) 13:45, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]