What of the lowly page number(theoutline.com)
theoutline.com
What of the lowly page number
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Useful for copying books before the printing press, you can check your copy by scanning through this word list
They would count the number of each letter for the bible, for example
They would count the number of each letter for the bible, for example
very cool, does anyone happen to if there's a term for this?
Those animated section separators (<hr>) are very distracting. Consider that someone might want to focus on the text!
I worked on page number extraction for a large online retailer. There were some amazing places they could be located. Stacked numbers indicating location in book/section/chapter, middle of the outside margin, mixed up based on if it was a title page or main body page.
What of the lowly Page Down key? It certainly can't scroll this website.
It looks like a focus problem. Click or select something in the page, like a word of text, and then scrolling with the keyboard works (at least for me on Firefox and Chrome on OS X).
(Instead of clicking, hitting tab once worked for me also)
(Instead of clicking, hitting tab once worked for me also)
It's kinda funny that theoutline.com becomes readable when accessed from outline.com
I'd noticed ...
This website just breaks scrolling in general. On iOS it prevents the top chrome from disappearing.
Click.
I didn’t spend hundreds of dollars on a mechanical keyboard with custom caps and switches to “click”.
No clicky keys?
You can see some examples in this book https://archive.org/details/opticksortreatis1730newt (although it has page numbers too).