Hey,
scrolling up/down with the mousewheel works fine, but scrolling left/right with it doesn't work. This would make a nice (small) feature for larger spreadsheets.

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infojunkie
Location Vancouver
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Thanks for your suggestion. Is there such a thing as left/right mousewheel? Otherwise, how would the UI work to switch the mousewheel from up/down to left/right scrolling?

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CorniI commented

sorry for not answering, I didn't see the email...
Well my mousewheel can be used for scrolling up/down, but it can be pushed sidewards as well to scroll left/right. So it's not turning a wheel but just pressing it left/right, so you don't need any UI adjustments.

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infojunkie
Location Vancouver
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I see, thanks. I need to detect the JS events for mousewheel left and right.

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infojunkie
Location Vancouver
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The answer on this Stack Overflow discussion indicates that the axis attribute of the mousewheel event is not universally supported.

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CorniI commented

I don't know, would it be possible/desirable for you to only implement this for firefox, the only browser really supporting this?
I happen to use firefox :D

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infojunkie
Location Vancouver
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Status: Active » Postponed

I think we have to postpone this until either
a) more browsers or the W3C specify left/right scrolling for mousewheels, or
b) we come up with a UX that reuses up/down scrolling to scroll left and right.

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willhallonline
Primary language English
Location Cambridge, UK
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Issue summary: View changes
Status: Postponed » Closed (won't fix)

Closed. Very old. It may work in later versions.