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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Mar 1, 2019 10:42AM

How does a native slider (an <input type="range"> element work with
the mouse in browser)?
I could thorw together a rough example, but I don't use a mouse and I
don't even know if this input results in a visible slider though I am
95%+ sure it does) so I couldn't test it.


On 3/1/19, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> On the rare occasion that I pick up a mouse, I do use the feature (works in
> firefox, chrome, and ie) that when dragging the browser's thumb when
> reading a long article, if I drag too far horizontally, the thumb pops back
> to it's original location (essentially a cancel). I do this when I know
> there is something in the article that I want to see while also keeping my
> place in the article. I'll drag the thumb to go back, look at what I need
> to see while keeping the mouse button down, and then intentionally drag
> sideways to cancel the scroll so I'm back to where I was reading. The same
> could happen for a volume or seek or color slider, although ideally that
> should be built in to the slider widget by the browser.
>
> Glen
> > > > >


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