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scrollbar - definition and meaning
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noun scroll bar .
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And actually, this month in "Wired," I write a little column saying that the current version of the Mac operating system dropped this little thing called the scrollbar , which is that little elevator shaft on the side of a window that you see on your computer there.
NPR Topics: News 2011
But "the moment we introduced a scrollbar , which is a GUI element, the level of satisfaction wavered a bit," he noted.
Ars Technica Matthew Braga 2009
The find on the page with the highlight on the scrollbar is a tool I will always miss in any other browser.
Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2008
This jumping around (or what Jef Rasking called LEAPING) is normally only ever done with the scrollbar which is woefully clumsy way of getting to the bit you want to edit.
Tom Smith's: theOTHERblog tom 2010
Definitely a copy of OSX … the dock, the scrollbar in the gtk+ theme, close/minimize buttons on the left, everything.
Change I Can Believe In | jonobacon@home 2010
If you factored customer (anti) service/warranty dodging/general suck-a$$ery into the equation, a horizontal scrollbar would be necessary to find them. ominoustoad
Laptop-Reliability Study Highlights The Most Sturdy Laptop Makers | Lifehacker Australia 2010
If you desperately miss seeing your scrollbar , go to System Preferences, General, Show scroll bars and choose "Always" in the top of the middle section.
Courage for Lion Users Katherine Boehret 2011
The problem of such tool is that it actually makes you slower, if you still rely on scrollbar or dock anything on the left and right edge of the screen.
Edgeless Enables Mouse Cursor Wrap Around | Lifehacker Australia 2009
I've managed to keep up with email for years -- but that's a combination of filtering and a rule that says that a scrollbar is not allowed to appear on the inbox -- if it does, it's stop, respond and file.
Making Light: PSA, part 2 2010
And I guarantee you will not see a single control element button, tab, scrollbar and the like migrate, intact and unchanged, from desktop OS X to tablet OS.
UFies.org: January 2010 Archives 2010
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