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by nofunsir 755 days ago
I genuinely think scrolling is more tedious. Have you visited any of apple's product pages lately? Makes me yarf.

EDIT: At least restaurant menu sites aren't that bad yet. Can you imagine? "Hamburger. Redefined." <SCROLLS> Hamburger slowly pieces together across the screen tied to your scrolling. "We think you're gonna love it." <SCROLLS> Pickles slowly fade in and out to demonstrate the difference between Hamburger and Hamburger Pro
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Reason077 755 days ago
Scrolling itself isn't tedious compared to panning and zooming a PDF. The information density is what's important. If you have to do a bunch of scrolling to see just a few items then, yes, they failed.
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EnigmaFlare 755 days ago
It depends what the PDF is. Reading a PDF book is tedious because you're endlessly panning back and forth at every line. But you don't read a restaurant menu from start to finish like that so it makes sense to have a less linear way of navigating than scrolling.
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nofunsir 755 days ago
> Scrolling itself isn't tedious compared to panning and zooming a PDF.

I simply disagree, and think the EXACT opposite.

Panning and Zooming a two-dimensional, immutable file itself isn't tedious compared to scrolling.

(You're straw-manning PDFs, though it could be any 2D image or mutable document file)

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