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Raymond Chen traces Windows scroll bar shortcuts from 2000 to modern fragmentation

Raymond Chen publishes history of scroll bar shortcuts and ecosystem fragmentation

1 Sep 22 · 1d ago · 1 post · 1 source · development 1 of 2

Chen documents how these shortcuts proliferated unevenly across frameworks: Chromium scroll bars implement Shift+click but not the context menu; WinUI XAML has neither; Qt frameworks offer customization options but leave it to developers. He laments discovering the Shift+click shortcut only recently, only to find it unreliable across the modern ecosystem.

Raymond Chen publishes history of scroll bar shortcuts and ecosystem fragmentation
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“Great, so by the time I learn about a shortcut for scroll bars (Shift+click), the ecosystem has fragmented so much that I can't even rely on it working.”

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