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by petermolyneux 3663 days ago
Hi, thanks for the feedback. Sorry for hijacking the scroll, but it just had to be done :) Your second point on recurring events is good, I will look at that. Even more so the last point, that one is really important, but I haven't found a good way to solve it yet. Thanks /Peter
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You could hijack the scroll only when the mouse is over the phone's screen not the entire page. Very interesting UI!
That's already what happens for me. I can scroll the page just fine if my cursor is off the demo device.
In Firefox the scrollwheel is hijacked regardless of where the cursor is.
The downside is I can't actually scroll in the page at all on my Firefox, works ok on Chrome though
Agree re: scrolling - it would have been difficult/impossible to get across the behaviour of the app in the is regard without hijacking.
Third point, what if you show a horizontal stack of the events. Only one showing at the time, and the others being thin lines. Scrolling sideways would shift the view of the horizontal stack.
Perhaps heatmap showing number of events.
I only now went back and used the scroll bar to find the text under the phone. Could you hijack the scroll wheel only when the mouse is over the phone?
I agree with the parent on the scrolling issue, it's quite confusing and unusable to me.