A better Virtual screen, using the mouse?

From: Howard Schwartz (theo@ncal.verio.com)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 22:47:15 -0800 (PST)

In windows (3.1) I have one of those video cards that lets you define
a virtual screen, bigger than your physical screen. When your mouse pointer
reaches the bottom of your real physical screen, the screen just keeps
scrolling down to the end of the ``virtual'' screen. The same goes for
the horizontal.

I find this feature makes windows browsers seem much more spacious on
my still fairly small monitor. It is almost like being able to view
text a full page at a time. The ``let your mouse pointer do the scrolling''
technique feels much easier than traditional scroll bars.

In contrast, arachne's screen feels ``small'' to me, and using its
scroll bars feels awkward.

Recently quite a few DOS text viewers have adapted the so called
``smooth scrolling'' technique, virtually identical to what I just
described.

I want to suggest incorporating smooth scrolling into the arachne
screen, instead of scroll bars. I dont know if that is hard to do, but
its existence in text viewers makes me optomistic.

Opinions, thoughts?