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phantomo · Jul 17, 2005, 10:32 PM

I turned on "Use Smooth Scrolling" under "Appearance" under "System Preference" and I notice the following:

Regular html pages scroll smoothly now but RSS feed pages doesn't scroll smoothly.

Can anyone confirm this weird behavior?

Targon · Jul 18, 2005, 05:29 AM

Originally Posted by phantomo

I turned on "Use Smooth Scrolling" under "Appearance" under "System Preference" and I notice the following:

Regular html pages scroll smoothly now but RSS feed pages doesn't scroll smoothly.

Can anyone confirm this weird behavior?

No. I experience the opposite. Using up/down arrows on powerbook, Smooth scrolling on, normal pages like macnn.com are very slow and jerky to start with then the scroll bar rapidly jumps to the bottom of the page. On an RSS page again maccnn rss up/down arrows scrolled the bar consistently an smoothly.

I turn the smooth scrolling off as it does not and has never provided a smoother scrolling experience for me on the Powerbook.

Strangely, scrolling in Safari in 10.3.8 using up/down arrows was very smooth, nothing to really complain about anyways. Updated to 10.3.9 and all hell broke loose. Scrolling in Safari was abysmal, id say as bad or worse than it was back in the Public Beta (1H39). Installed Tiger/updated to 10.4.2, scrolling is an improvement over 10.3.9 but still no where near as smooth as it was in 10.3.8. Much work needs to be done here. Regular pages like macnn.com are still quite jerky and it stutters alot. I really dont know how they managed to screw this up so badly. Perhaps Apple purposely slowed this down, and other little things in the system, that way when they enable Q2DExtreme in the OS these little things will amazingly appear to be sped up significantly, at least give us the impression the speed up is greater than it really.

phantomo · Jul 18, 2005, 08:45 AM

Targon, thanks for your reply.

I only use mouse's scroll wheel (Logitech) to scroll. Hm... could it be driver issue?

cleanup · Jul 18, 2005, 09:05 AM

Phantomo, when using a mouse wheel, scrolling is accelerated, so it feels sort of weird. Also, wheel scrolling in Mac OS X 10.4.1 and below is relatively jerky. 10.4.2 makes it a lot smoother.

phantomo · Jul 19, 2005, 09:55 AM

cleanup, I understand what you mean. Scrolling is much smoother under 10.4.2 but my point is that scrolling is smooth on regular html pages but NOT on those RSS feeds pages, which is weird.

Sage · Jul 19, 2005, 11:03 AM

I get that too. Page Up/Down on a regular web page will get me smooth scrolling, but RSS pages act as if smooth scrolling is turned off.

cybergoober · Jul 19, 2005, 11:13 AM

Indeed. You can also see this by pressing the Space bar in a web page (acts as page down), or on laptops fn-down arrow. HTML scrolls smoothly to the next page, RSS jumps abruptly.

Nai no Kami · Jul 19, 2005, 11:46 AM

I can confirm what phantomo says. Using a PowerBook 12" and smooth scrolling enabled on Mac OS X 10.4.2 gives me smooth as silk scrolling under regular html pages, finder windows and Preview PDF documents (and Illustrator and Photoshop) when using the scrolling trackpad capabilities (which acts exactly as a mouse scrolling wheel). However, RSS pages in Safari and Word documents (as far as I can recall) are tremendolusly jerky to scroll (if the documents are relatively large, i.e., 40 pages and above).
I just wanted to add that scrolling on RSS pages was improved after 10.4.2 update. Previously, jerkiness was almost unbearable.

phantomo · Jul 23, 2005, 03:37 AM

Thanks for everyone's input. Let's hope Apple fixes things like this...