Re: scroll bar and drop down list usability

[Ken Fox <kfox vulpes com>]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> Why motif (and many other toolkits) slavishly followed
> stupidity [with scrollbars on the right] is beyond me.

I don't know of any research that studied the advantages of
scrollbar positioning. Is this an opinion or can you back it
up?

Athena's scrollbars were pretty good -- but ugly. It
could be that asthetics matter more than functionality in
today's flashy demo marketing world. Don't Apple and IBM
GUI standards pre-date Motif too? (But didn't Motif inherit
a lot from HP's widget kit? Does that post-date the GUI
standards?)

> Jim Gettys

James Gettys of X11 fame?