Putting on my individual contributor hat here, I have to say that Ben's solution would seem very non-intuitive to me. I'm not aware of any app that works that way, and I would probably think that the dialog was just cut off (as is currently the case on my netbook), and would not expect to be able to somehow auto-scroll it by touching the edge. It seems to me that you would want to somehow visually indicate that there is more of this dialog to be seen, preferably show how much dialog is left to be seen and allow someone to move through that, at which point we're talking scroll bars...
2009/12/8 Ben Goodger (Google) <[email protected]> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Evan Stade <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Ben Goodger (Google) <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> My opinion remains the same. Note that the dialog box as presented > >> seems to have some layout issues that cause it to be taller than > >> needed (see formatting in the sync section at the top). > >> > > > > so, despite that it is taller than the screen for netbooks, or even many > > notebooks by now, hanging off the edge of the screen is better than a > > scrollbar or a new tab? > > Yes. > > >> However, I suggest having the dialog box move (scroll) on screen as > >> you move your mouse to the screen edge. > > > > I'm not really sure what this means, is there an example of this UI > > somewhere? > > The closest thing I can think of is on some displays where you set the > resolution to larger than what the display can do, the display becomes > a view port and slides the viewport around as you touch the screen > edges. I recommend doing that for this dialog box. > > -Ben > > -- > Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] > View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev > -- Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
