Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "Buzzwords" - originally published 11/16/2009 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
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Note: This blog post contains video or JavaScript effects that are illegal in RSS and will be removed by most feed readers. It should display perfectly if you open it in Safari, Chrome, or Firefox, though. In spite of some of the reaction to it, I find Google Wave to be surprisingly useful. One thing I don’t really understand, though, is its scrollbars. They behave quite differently from regular scrollbars, and I can’t discern any overwhelming advantages of Google’s implementation. It seems I’m not alone. The unofficial Google Wave manual deems it necessary to explain how the scrollbars work. Google’s own support site for Wave has an entry titled What’s the deal with the scrollbar?, Google has a video explaining the scrollbars, and there’s even a Chrome extension which replaces Google’s scrollbars with native scrollbars. As a general rule, there’s nothing wrong with replacing native widgets with different-looking versions; visual consistency is overrated. As long as people can clearly...
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