Evolution of the Scrollbar
Would love to have had the Open Look and Athena scrollbars.<p>Open Look was super cool looking, but awful to use. Athena was (is?) awful looking and lacked any affordances for beginners, but was terrific for expert use.<p>I am fond of Open Look, and keep a copy of the Open Look GUI Functional Specification (Addison-Wesley, 1989) on my shelf, much as some people venerate the Apple HIG, except that mine is much less useful.<p>Here&#x27;s a nice post that came up in a search for the Open Look scrollbar: &quot;Evolution and design of scrollbars&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pim.famnit.upr.si&#x2F;blog&#x2F;index.php?&#x2F;archives&#x2F;153-Evolution-and-design-of-scrollbars.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pim.famnit.upr.si&#x2F;blog&#x2F;index.php?&#x2F;archives&#x2F;153-Evolu...</a>