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I haven't had the opportunity to use the Google Wave scrollbars, but it seems that one advantage would be a consistent and reasonable sized target to click in order to scroll.

I've always found it quite difficult to scroll really large documents with the standard type of scrollbars. The click target is ridiculously small and so is hard to hit with the mouse, and then the scroll is very sensitive, so it's easy to skip over too much too quickly.

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I feel its the sort of thing where there are pros and cons, and really, convincing people to change the way they collaborate online is a lofty enough goal as is, without needing to change the way people use scrollbars.

If your mouse has a proper acceleration curve (as, for instance OS X does, or Linux can be made to), then moving the mouse slowly → small movements, and tiny targets and small movements are pretty easy to manage.

The plethora of apps designed specifically to fix OS X's obviously horribly broken and unusable acceleration curve is the only counter the universe needs against your argument.

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