What was the purpose of reversing scrolling direction?

YOU PUSH THE CONTENT LIKE IN IOS IN A IN SOME WAY IS BETTER JUST USE TO IT ..

you cant change it anytime i didnt like it

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean.

Please, "igmackenzie", just make a little try to understand my position.

As far as I know, I never saw my screen moving!

My sight goes to the top or the bottom of the page so does my finger.

My screen is not moving, my sight is.

After only a day, the new way has become second nature now, and I prefer it over the old way. using my Track Pad and Magic mouse just feels natural and correct now. Love it. :O)

I agree.... it needs getting used to..... now I love it!

Add me to the list of those who really love the new scrolling. Its like feeding paper out of a typewriter.

Can you remember that far back?

I turned it off right away, but then I noticed with the scrolling left and right - for some reason I was wanting it to do it this 'natural' way. Slide the page to the right and you can see more of what's the left. So now I've turned it back on.

But I was just wondering if anyone else had that experience. That is, for whatever reason the new way didn't come natural for vertical scrolling but did for horizontal.

While using my iPhone I realized why this was - because the 2-finger left/right swipe of Lion that slides you over to other desktops and full-screen apps reminds me of going through pages on the iPhone/iPad. Not to mention how much Launchpad does of course (remind of iOS).

Hmm... no-one else thought of that! Seriously though, that is the intention, i.e. to bring OS X and iOS closer together by bringing the good aspects of both to each other.

And the opposite of microfiche readers, where the media is pushed one way and the reader's viewport is stationary. We have been using that metaphor for readers for a very long time. I am not sure what "natural" means if you reverse this case. Is it now that the media is stationary and the reader (viewport) is moving? Mindboggling this.

Microfiche? That doesn't really come into it though as it involves optical reversals etc.

That's true, but once the image hit the screen, didn't we have to scroll thru the roll in the opposite direction by turning the knob to get throught the reel? I really don't know what the f I'm talking about here, it's been 40 years since I used one 🙂

I agree with tryphonofgerry where he says,

With a computer, the finger is an extension of my eye.

My eye want to see the foot of the page so my finger scroll down on the mouse or the trackpad.

My eye want to see the header? My finger scroll up. This is what I call intuitive behavior.

I've been trying to put it into words, and he did.

Dragging the screen on iOS makes natural sense on a touch screen. It doesn't necessarily with mouse/trackpad control.

Also, the so-called "natural" scrolling is the opposite of the way the scrollbars work. And the opposite of the way all other computers work, which makes it hard to switch back and forth.

I tried it for most of a day and just found it too annoying and went back. It's a matter of taste, but I don't think the new default is any more natural than the traditional way.

doug

If the media was stationary and you moved the viewport up (for example) then your view would move up - towards the top of the media. If you move the viewport left then you'd see more to the left. But no, this is the opposite - this is actually like moving the media and the viewport stays in one place.

Good analogy, but I'm puzzled by how you have it backwards. Unless, when you write "Is it now..." you are talking about disabling this new feature and going back to the old way of scrolling.

Anyway, I do like this, but the only issue I have is switching between PC's with scroll-wheel mice and my Mac. But it may be fine. I know I used to play certain types of games with the X-axis reversed. Started with flying games and went into FPS but other games, like RPG's I would play not reversed. It's really kinda wild how fast your brain can get used to doing something completely opposite.