Virtual scrollbar is a visual cue of how long the page is going to be. It is one of the native visual language for most of the computer users nowadays.
In my own experience, during the first half second when opening a new page, I would quickly glance at the right side of the page for the v-scrollbar, feel the loading speed of content and images, and then subconsciously evaluate whether it's worth waiting for the page load to finish, or rather switch to another browser tab to do something else. If the v-scrollbar "lies" and showing different length every time I visit, it's annoying and confusing. Also I'd have this nervous feeling of never being able to reach the bottom of the page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46939 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
