Talk:Firefox/Feature Brainstorming

Strong support for an intelligent page-scroll!

Under "Text readability improvements", topic 2 (in the article of this Feature Brainstorming page) there is described a feature, I have missed for decades in all HTML-displaying software, including Firefox...

You all do know this: Reading a page over more than one screen leads to a last one, which contains any text-tail, not filling the screen completely. But here, whenever you page-down to this last screen, the end of the text is placed at the bottom of the screen, and therefore at the top there is more or less of text, displayed again. From there, you've lost the last line! From there, you always have to scan for this line, first...

This behavior is different from any other scrolling, and it's a drag in an ergonomical sense for the reader. I've never understood, why users didn't critize this, why programers didn't change this!

So, this feature in the way proposed seems to me overdue, really: "the previously visible area should be delimited by a frame/line for a certain period of time, after which the frame disappears or fades out, so it's easier to find the last read line." Or, similarily: simply show the last line of the previous screen at the top (for recognition, like an editor does), followed by the rest - and show an empty part beneath.

My suspicion is, that in the stone age, somebody had decided "Never screens with empty places at the bottom! Does no look good!", and from there on, all were imitating this - till nowadays. Imagine this crazy solution with a printed book: at the end of every chapter, the last page starts repeating text from the page before... maybe, pretty much lines (on average clearly half a page!), just to end with a last line, always exactly at the bottom place!

voodooyou