When reading an article online how do you prefer to scroll the page?<p>This is a two part question:<p>How do you physically scroll the page?<p>- Track Pad?<p>- Scroll Wheel on a Mouse?<p>- Scroll Ring on a trackball?<p>- Arrow Keys?<p>- Page Up/Down Buttons?<p>- Dragging the Scroll Bar?<p>- An unusual device like a foot pedal?<p>- Some kind of auto scrolling program?<p>- Some other thing?<p>How often do you scroll while reading?<p>- Do you continuously scroll the page while you are reading it?<p>- Do you read the entire page before scrolling?<p>- Some other behavior?<p>I'm curious what most people do. I like to scroll at the same time as I am reading it and I think this kind of thing might lead to RSI. I am considering switching to reading the whole page and then using Page Down.
I use PageDown/Space + a bookmarklet that marks where the bottom of the page was after scrolling: [Scroll Better with the Space-Bar]. (I modified mine to darken the entire old area instead of just a red line.)<p>[Scroll Better with the Space-Bar]: <a href="https://www.ph-uhl.com/0010-Bookmarklets/#:~:text=Scroll%20Better%20with%20the%20Space%2DBar" rel="nofollow">https://www.ph-uhl.com/0010-Bookmarklets/#:~:text=Scroll%20B...</a>
As a user of command line Unix, and desktop computers since before mice were common, I use arrow keys and page up/page down. When mice became common, I used scroll bar more often. For speed, keystrokes almost always beat mouse movements.<p>Surprisingly, only in the last few years did I really give the mouse wheel a try, due to a piece of software I was forced to use on a Chromebook. Now I use it frequently.<p>Track pad or the little "pencil eraser" control on some laptops (in the middle of the keyboard) are my least used methods.
On a laptop, i usually scroll while reading and use either the trackpad or a mouse scroll wheel to scroll. On the phone i tend to read the page and scroll as needed.
when I have a maus - scrollwheel<p>when I'm dealing with loadshedding and have to use my laptop by itself, two fingers, trackpad, moving in the direction of scrolling, like a regular person, none of the upside-down "grabbing the paper" rubbish that iKids like