I guess a business reason for scroll lock in the TV UIs is that it immediately shows more recommendations as you scroll right, which I suppose could increase engagement.
Scrolling on TV strangely annoying. To see any more options on Apple TV you have to go all the way to right and then start going actually to the right. On Netflix can’t search easily. Have to bring everything back to left most first.
My pc, maybe because of the external keyboard I'm using, occasionally decides that Scroll Lock is On and then Excel becomes unusable ... The solution is to bring up the On Screen Keyboard and toggle the virtual scroll lock key ...
I wonder how that happens? Do you press Ctrl-Home a lot (to go to the very start of a document), and maybe you missed and hit Fn-Home, if you have a Dell OEM keyboard https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F... , Fn-Home toggles Scroll Lock...
tv ui favors larger elements and longer transitions to make focus & change more legible for distant viewing. at 1m-3m people have a harder time following the ui. tv browsing is also much more frequently a group activity, where one person is pushing buttons and so knows what transition will happen, but others on the couch need to follow the activity too. different modality & ui priority compared to phone or desktop which are much closer to the face and much more personal/single player.
- none of the above links work, a lot of dudes sharing blogs on HN absolutely do not check if they have a page where all the articles are seen in one glance (titles only)
- bro look at this other dude https://xnacly.me/posts/ his post was right below yours, look how beautifully this page has put up titles of every post with tags no less! cant we have something like this for your blog
I started my career in finance, and I used scroll lock constantly. When you're spending twelve hours a day in Excel, moving around quickly with just the keyboard starts to matter.
Even today, my keyboard remap file swaps it with "insert" to put it in easier reach (it's also far less potentially destructive when pressed accidentally).
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 33.0 ms ] threadInstead of selecting something you already see, it feels like you're discovering something that's slow to render.
Imagine your PCs desktop was like this, or your phone's app list. Click once per "next selection." It would drive me mad.
- i just wanted to take a quick glance at all the posts to see if anything catches my eye
- https://unsung.aresluna.org/all
- https://unsung.aresluna.org/archive
- https://unsung.aresluna.org/archives
- https://unsung.aresluna.org/posts
- https://unsung.aresluna.org/blog
- none of the above links work, a lot of dudes sharing blogs on HN absolutely do not check if they have a page where all the articles are seen in one glance (titles only)
- bro look at this other dude https://xnacly.me/posts/ his post was right below yours, look how beautifully this page has put up titles of every post with tags no less! cant we have something like this for your blog
Uncaught (in promise) AbortError: The play() request was interrupted by a call to pause().
Uncaught (in promise) NotSupportedError: Failed to load because no supported source was found.
Even today, my keyboard remap file swaps it with "insert" to put it in easier reach (it's also far less potentially destructive when pressed accidentally).
I believe the correct mechanic is to have the character move around the center of the screen freely and scroll when they approach the edge.