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Saft - Add very useful features to Safari
Authored by: nwfrg on Nov 04, '04 01:12:17PM

This does work for me. I tried it with success on the powerbook and the iBook. Perhaps a more detailed explanation will help.

Hold down the command key. Click and hold inside the webpage window and then drag over the edge of the window, all the way to the edge of your screen if you like. Works like a charm.

That said, I'm going to try Saft as the command-click-drag to scroll feature was one of the best things about IE5.



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Saft - Add very useful features to Safari
Authored by: robg on Nov 04, '04 01:18:42PM

Ah, yes, that works -- I think it was even a hint here once :).

Scroll wheel is certainly easy, but the Saft method has an advantage -- it's a variable-speed scrollwheel. Move the mouse quickly, scroll quickly; move it slowly, scroll very slowly. There's a limit to how quickly you can spin the scrollwheel -- and on my Microsoft mouse, it's not really fast at all.

-rob.



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Scrolling
Authored by: gshenaut on Nov 04, '04 02:42:23PM

I use the scrollwheel emulation in uControl, which is essential anyway to me because of its handling of the CapsLock key. Anyway, uControl allows easy vertical & horizontal scrollwheel emulation in Safari and just about everywhere else. But it might not be as useful with a regular mouse, I use it with a trackpad on my Powerbook.

Greg Shenaut



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Saft - Add very useful features to Safari
Authored by: thoughton on Nov 05, '04 03:09:50PM

The 'click and hold' method works (sort of) without pressing command, but obviously it highlights any text. For whatever reason it appears that pressing any modifier in Safari prevents the text from highlighting.



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