Trackpad scrolling works backwards...or is it just me?
Scrolling up and down a page with two fingers is very nice, but to my way of thinking it was implemented backwards. If I want to see the part of the page that's below my window, my impulse is to "push" the "paper" upwards. To get back to the top, I want to "pull" it back towards me. On the MBA, it works in reverse: moving the fingers down makes the page move up.
This is, of course, how it works with scroll bars and arrow keys, but with this new interface I would rather see a new metaphor, with your fingers acting as if they were working directly on the window rather than on its controls. That's how it is on the iphone, right?
Does that make sense to anyone else? Should this be a settable preference?
I absolutely get what you're saying. Is this your first Mac laptop? I ask because the two-finger scrolling as it is now has been available for a number of years now, so it shouldn't be a surprise. The iPhone interface, of course, has gotten us used to the new, more tactile-like style of scrolling you want. It'd be cool to have an option in System Preferences. I suggest submitting to http://www.apple.com/feedback/ . Apple, as a company, is surprisingly responsive. There's no MacBook Air link yet, but the other laptops have the same scrolling feature, so your feedback would be just as relevant.
Michael
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