Posted by kdarling on 10/19/06 22:30

Benjamin Niemann wrote:
> kdarling@basit.com wrote:
> > Left-handed users on a touchscreen PDA would love to have the option of
> > a left hand scrollbar. There's nothing worse than having to cover the
> > screen with your hand when trying to scroll with your left fingertip.
>
> But this should be an option for the user - and a good one, as you showed.
> How should a document author know, if users are left- or right-handed?

It's true that it'd be best done as a browser preference. But lacking
that support, then from a website (or in our case, intranet web apps)
point of view, cookies with the user's favorite handedness, color
schemes (for color blind users or B&W pdas), shortcuts, etc, would work
just fine. Actually in our case, we could save some of that info in
each user's profile that we have in a database at login time.

Regards, Kev
Verizon Mobile Dev

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