Adding 2 more scroll bars

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Adding 2 more scroll bars

Is this even possible?

limbo

2:33 pm on Oct 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

This may sound like a wierd question and respectfully a bit of a webpage design no no, but I was wondering is there a script that would place a webpage within the realms of 4 scroll bars. I have never seen more than 2 - One on the right and one on the bottom of the browser. But never one page with scroll bars on the left and top of the browser window. I have a idea for a very odd website and it would work best with '4 way scrolling'.

Did that make sense? - I wish i could draw you a picture.

Ta.

lorax

2:41 pm on Oct 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

Limbo,
The only way, I'm aware of, that you might be able to accomplish this is to write something in SGML or JAVA.

joshie76

4:05 pm on Oct 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

I'm curious, what would the left and top scrollbars do differently from the right and bottom bars?

Sinner_G

4:07 pm on Oct 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

I guess if you did a 100% flash site (duh) you could do it.

limbo

4:39 pm on Oct 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

>> I'm curious, what would the left and top scrollbars do differently from the right and bottom bars?

I want to place the user in the middle of a mahusive abstract webpage and let them "wander". this could be done using 2 scrollers but i want it to feel like a 3D experience where navigation is warped from the norm. I cant say much more than that really. The site might well turn out to be a turkey anyway.

>> I guess if you did a 100% flash site (duh) you could do it.

I dont have access to flash but a good suggestion though. Ta.

DrOliver

8:02 am on Oct 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

Well the scrollbar on the left should be no problem with CSS 2:

html{direction:rtl;}
body{direction:ltr;}

(haven't tried the syntax)

now, with clever wrapping of inline frames, you could at least simulate left and right scrollbars.

Or with plain HTML 4:

<body dir="rtl">
<div dir="ltr">
Content here...
</div>
<body>

joshie76

8:15 am on Oct 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

You could also try and create your *own* scrollbars with images and DHTML, but this wouldn't be cross-browser or platform as each has it's own style of scrollbar.

It would also require some pretty advanced DHTML. Flash is probably your most direct route to achieving warped navigation (though mostly this is accomplished by accident;)).

Best of luck, sounds like a fun project.

limbo

10:05 am on Oct 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

The HTML4 code worked a treat to swap the scroller for right to left. Is there code that does this but keeps the right hand one as well. And similarly with the bottom and top of the browser window.

I prefer working in HTML to maintain cross browser and platform compatibility. I am I right in thinking so long as the code is pure I can reach 'all' users?

Purple Martin

3:34 am on Oct 14, 2002 (gmt 0)

Is there code that does this but keeps the right hand one as well

DrOliver was suggesting one possibility when he said "with clever wrapping of inline frames". You could have a page with a normal right-hand scrollbar, and inside that you'd put an iframe with the scrollbar swapped to the left. That way you've got both. But I really don't know how you'd get the outside scrollbar to have any effect on the contents of the iframe. I'm not even sure it can be done. If you do find a way, please let us know!