Mobile world makes it a necessity to develop techniques to show information that, by nature, would need a larger display. For the carefree user this substantially means to be able to see hi-res images without renouncing to see details, to read a website not mobile-ready, or to look over a wide spreadsheet or some tables.

The problems of the scrolling bar

The touchscreen is a valid help in this situation, but the classic solution of the scrolling bar would force us to give up half the display to make it accessible to our huge finger tips, and if the scrollable element More >