Article:		Make Internal Links Scroll Smoothly with JavaScript
Subject:		Just Eye Candy?
Date:		2005-08-27 13:08:17
From:		joshuawait
Nicely written JavaScript and well documented article. However, I don't really see this function as an improvement of the interface. In fact, it seems confusing to me for a hyperlink to have scroll behavior. Perhaps I'm mistaken but a jump seems more intuitive for a hyperlink than the sudden whizzing of a page.

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• Just Eye Candy?
  2005-09-15 02:09:37  aquarius [View]
  
  
  I'm quite happy with that characterisation, Joshua. I personally think that a jump is disorienting, and having page-internal links react differently (scrolling) from page-external links (a direct jump, no scrolling) is good because they can be distinguished, but there's certainly the alternative view that the current way is better, and I wouldn't argue massively with that.