Lock Scroll with a Vengeance

I guess a business reason for scroll lock in the TV UIs is that it immediately shows more recommendations as you scroll right, which I suppose could increase engagement.

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codeulike 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My pc, maybe because of the external keyboard I'm using, occasionally decides that Scroll Lock is On and then Excel becomes unusable ... The solution is to bring up the On Screen Keyboard and toggle the virtual scroll lock key ...

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peterlada 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was today's years old when I learned what Scroll Lock was used for. And I've not had a keyboard with it for about 15 years.

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renewiltord 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Scrolling on TV strangely annoying. To see any more options on Apple TV you have to go all the way to right and then start going actually to the right. On Netflix can’t search easily. Have to bring everything back to left most first.

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oleganza 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

TV examples show that Apple simply has done their scrolling right, while everyone else did not work out the necessary details.

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IneffablePigeon 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Except the other examples used to work like Apple’s and have switched to the scroll locked implementation.

I think I prefer that mode to be honest, because it leaves you in a consistent place for up/down to take you to instead of it potentially depending where your selection is in the row.

	▲	vessenes an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah the real pain is button pressing down / up / back in the TV UI. Definitely a fun grab bag of possible outcomes! I don’t think there’s a good solution without a militant UI person in charge of the whole shebang - some radical simplification would likely be needed. The reality is that the click ipod was much better at scrolling media than the Apple TV is. And I own a lot of Apple TVs - I think it’s a good device. But it was far faster to scroll through media 20 years ago.