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		hollerith on Feb 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mac OSX Lion's scroll breaks the web >the web is not limited to reading plain text documents anymore That is true. It is also true that it is becoming more frustrating to use the web for its original purpose of reading plain text documents, and the need to scroll some pages horizontally is a symptom of that.

silentOpen on Feb 3, 2012 [–]

I thought the purpose of the web was scientific hypertext documents?

hollerith on Feb 3, 2012 | [–]

"Scientific hypertext documents" then. Point is that it is becoming more difficult to use for its original purpose.

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