Re: Side scrolling [was Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund ...]

[Benjamin C. W. Sittler]

On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Nelson Henry Eric wrote:
[snip]
> If it's major use were to be for tables (of course were're talking here
> of after the release), I think I personally would like the _jump_ to the
> right, as long as there were a check to not break a column of the table.
> Speed would be much more desirable than character-by-character "scrolling".
[snip]

Another issue to keep in mind is how this will affect screen-reading
softwar. It sounds like you might see only the left or right "half" of a
paragraph, which means that sentence flow might be totally destroyed.
I suggest that such table rendering be made optional, and perhaps turned
off by default.