Two-Finger Scrolling

Jul 17, 12:39 AM  

Aha, now this is more like it:

The problem is that there aren’t any traditional scroll bars, so it seems like you are stuck. Even very smart engineers who know a lot about mobile computing are having problems.

Here are a couple of situations I’ve encountered:

  • While editing in a text area with a lot of text. You probably have resorted to using the insertion point to (slowly) reposition the text.

  • On a web page has content displayed using the CSS scroll:auto property. You’re stuck looking at the top of a <div> and can’t get to the lower part of the content.

Fortunately there is a very simple, yet unintuitive, solution for both of these situations. Use two fingers to scroll the content.

Excellent! I was wondering how to move around like that.