Shift+Scroll to scroll horizontally is still missing. This might seem like a small feature to have, but it actually has profound impact.
First of all, I belive the majority of mice still only have a vertical scroll wheel. At our university, every mouse falls into that category. However, the major problem is providing a consistent interaction with horizontally scrolling containers across platforms/browsers. If one has to rely on a vertical scroll wheel, the approach would be listening for the `wheel` event and use `event.deltaY` for setting `scrollLeft` when `event.shiftKey === true`. Now this won’t lead to pleasent results right away since these deltas yield vastly different values across devices/browsers. Is it a trackpad? Does it fire the event very often? Is the delta very big or very small? Is the inertial scrolling behavior? In short, re-implementing scrolling behavior is very hard. Turning a scroll wheel once results in roughly the same scrolling distance when comparing Chrome and Firefox. However the events’ delta values are different. What does this have to do with this issue? Since there is no Shift+Scroll for horizontal scrolling, providing users with a way to do so also requires to re-implemented scrolling. Users need a way of interacting with horizontally overflowing elements by scrolling natively. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1228250 Title: [Shift + Mouse-Scroll-Wheel] Does NOT Scroll Horizontally To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1228250/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
