Scroll wheel support added
By popular demand, you can now hover your mouse over a news feed panel, and use the scroll wheel to scroll through the news headlines. Works in Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Firefox users: you can open links in new tabs either by clicking the middle mouse button, or by clicking the left mouse button while holding the CTRL or CMD key.
January 5th, 2006 at 4:56 am
I like this. Keep up the good work, guys.
January 5th, 2006 at 9:58 am
wow-!-
not only did you implement my suggestion (I know I wasn’t the only one), but an email telling me that you did it and thanking me for my input! Holy smokes I’m stickin with protopage. BTW heard the interview on the Inside the Net Podcast keep up the great work!
January 5th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Like Matt I made this suggestion about 4 days ago and I received an email telling me it was implemented already. That is a great response time. Thanks for providing a useful product and all your hard work!
January 5th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
wow, great feature. Thanks a lot guys, not just for an excellnt free service but also for keeping it up and adding new features to it!
The last thing left would have to be a live chat box, so that you can chat with others on your Protopage.
January 5th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Glad you like it. As always, please keep sending in detailed suggestions of features you’d like to see - we’ve got a lot in the pipeline and it helps us prioritize. Please also send in any bug reports - you’d be surprised how few people alert us when something isn’t quite right!
January 6th, 2006 at 2:54 am
For some reason, it doesn’t work quite right with me. I’m using FF 1.5, and when I try to use my scroll wheel, the panel does scroll a bit, but then the entire page scrolls down as well.
I’m using a Logitech laptop mouse. Is there some setting in Logitech or FF that I need to fix first?
Thanks! I LOVE Protopage by the way. Can’t last a day without visiting my page.
January 6th, 2006 at 2:58 am
Something else that might help -
My PC is only on 1024 x 768, so my protopage exceeds the length of the browser window, meaning I need the browser scroll bar is displayed. When I’m at the top of my page, I can scroll the panels upwards with no problem, but when I scroll down my entire page scrolls down as well.
Conversely, when I’m at the bottom of my page, the panels scroll down just fine, but when I scroll up, the whole page scrolls upwards.
Hope this helps.
Nick
January 6th, 2006 at 6:45 am
Thanks, the Firefox dual-scroll issue has now been fixed.
January 6th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Perhaps it’s a catch 22, but now when I have a panel maximized, I can’t scrollwheel it at all. The panel, obviously doesn’t feel the need to scroll, because it’s maximized, and the page itself doesn’t scroll because my mouse is hovering over the panel. I can work around this by putting my mouse right off the edge of the maximized panel.
A small issue, to be sure, and a small price to pay for the convenience of a great feature.
- Goes without saying, but I love this service, use it daily, and talk it up to friends and co-workers constantly. - PV
January 6th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
Right. Either you guys fixed the maximized-panel-scrollwheel issue already, or it was all in my mind. Brilliant. Cheers - PV
January 7th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Don’t worry, you’re not losing your mind. We released a fix.
January 9th, 2006 at 2:40 am
Love Protopage! It’s been my start page for 3 weeks now and I can’t do without it.
Unfortunately the scroll feature is not working at all for me. Windows XP SP2, Firefox 1.5, Logitech Wireless with latest drivers.
But I’m sure it will be awesome once it works! :)
January 14th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
Thank you so much for the scroll wheel…Glad to see that was just added as I thought I must have had a brain fart before not knowing how to work it.
Keep all the great upgrades coming….
I am staying with you guys ….
Maria
January 15th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
I’m using Firefox 1.5 when I scroll had moved down to the bottom of the page in a single movement.
January 18th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
WHY CANT THE BOX RESIZE TAKE A LOOK @T MY PROTOPAGE PLEASE!
January 21st, 2006 at 2:31 am
Does the scroll-wheel thing work when the panel is not maximized?
January 24th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
is there something that can be done to keep the settings panel topmost in the page? i cant stand when my frappr pics and map are the topmost and i am having a difficult time trying to change settings.
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April 7th, 2006 at 10:53 am
salut
April 8th, 2006 at 4:01 am
Great article. I am just sad I dont know how to reply properly, though, since I want to show my appreciation like many other.
April 18th, 2006 at 6:20 am