scrolling to a line

Dan Shafer revdan at danshafer.com
Sun Nov 13 15:04:58 EST 2005


FWIW, I don't think that's expected behavior or necessarily good user  
experience design. If there's no "find" then things should stay the  
same. Maybe a beep but a scroll to a phantom location doesn't really  
help me much, doesn't give me any new information.

My $0.02.


On Nov 13, 2005, at 8:08 AM, Charles Hartman wrote:

> But it doesn't solve one problem: suppose the user starts typing a  
> string that doesn't appear in the list? If the first few letters  
> match something, this scrolls to pretty close. But suppose nothing  
> starts with 'Q' and the user starts by typing a 'q'? The list won't  
> scroll at all. What would be nicer would be to scroll to the place  
> where an item beginning with 'q' *would* be if there were one.



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