Comments on: Scrollbar UI and Search Results

By: Allan K

Allan K — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:57:27 +0000

In Ubuntu (and maybe other OS – try it!) you can shift-click on a yellow bar to go right there. Very nice.

Cheers, al.

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:20:10 +0000

That’s interesting. A bit late to the party and somewhat offtopic, but what do you think about this scrollbar design? http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/popup-scrollbar-concept-demo/

By: PaulusDev

PaulusDev — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:51:30 +0000

I like this too, but I’ve seen a few comments pointing out that this is nothing new..
Firefox has a plugin that does it..
And IE8′s beta has this feature..

If you are using Chrome, this feature is also hindered by the fact that many people can’t scroll up using the scroll feature of their mouse (usually laptop trackpads)

I released a program to quickly and automatically fix the issue (until Chrome is fixed officially).
See here:

http://digg.com/software/Google_Chrome_68

Direct link: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pjt2v07/chrome/

By: drewp

drewp — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:07:52 +0000

Birdseye views…

So I read that google chrome shows the positions of in-page search results on the page’s scrollbar:

(image from usabilitypost)

This is something David McClosky and I put into skim 5 years ago. Our version enlarged up the scrollbar so it w…

By: Christopher Blizzard

Christopher Blizzard — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:51:05 +0000

Wow, this _is_ pretty cool. We’ll look at this for FF, too. I didn’t know about this feature.

Thanks, Greg!

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:05:30 +0000

Wow.. that’s brilliant. Very good idea also about utilizing it on search pages and other things — you should get a patent