This just happened again. It happens a lot when being on the Dope. When I compose and Reply to a thread, that sexy blue scroll bar on the right side of the page sometimes becomes two scroll bars. Typically this appears as I’ve hit the Preview button and the page re-sets to show me my post in Preview along with the other posts, in the normal fashion below my raw edit post.
One will be up near the right corner, but not always tucked IN the right corner. The other one will be low down, near my newly minted post. Both are active, and if I scroll the lower one up to the upper one, the upper one does not move at all.
Rather, I eventually can push the lower scroll bar into the upper scroll bar. Two become one, and the one functions normally.
Nothing bad happens, other than this strange metallic taste in my mouth, a dull pinging sound in my ears and the scent of burnt oranges in the air.
No, seriously. Is there a problem with my OS ? Have other Mac OS-X users seen a split scroll bar on a web page, and does it mean anything?
Never seen it. I’ve got OS X “skinned” which might conceivably make a difference, but since the “skinning” is just the substitution of one library of little TIFF resources for a different library, it’s hard to imagine why it would.
What browser, those of you who’ve seen it? Should I assume Safari? Anyone seen it in a nonSafari browser? Mine is Shiira, and I was an iCab user before Shiira.
I’ve never seen this, in any window (browser or otherwise). I use 10.2 at the office, and 10.4 at home. What OS version are you guys using? I imagine that would be more significant than the application (since the scrollbars are generated from shared code that’s part of the OS).
Not often. It’s usually caused by an application failing to keep track of a window’s update region properly. That happens when programmers write custom controls, and forget about handling some peculiar path that should lead to an update.