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Frank Chimero: Horizontalism and Readability

Frank Chimero appears to be advocating that designers investigate more aggressively the horizontal dimension in creating online reading experiences, as this blog attempts to do with some nifty landscape scripting. However, he cautions: “We may be able to kiss our scroll bars goodbye, but only if the implementations are seamless and better than the existing paradigm.” Very true. I think horizontal scrolling in desktop experiences is probably a nonstarter, but the idea has more than a fighting chance on the iPad.

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