scrollbox.js
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Client-side scroll area (full-width, variable height) to display stuff from a file, a string, or an array of strings. Because it does various bits of rewrap magic it's probably not suitable for all content. Good
for my gopher client, though.
Is that significantly different from frame.js and scrollbar.js?
Absolutely. There are situations where one of these is better than the other.
ScrollBox is good if you want to display a lot of text and let the user scroll it within a window. It's faster and more efficient than Frame for this purpose - this is a scenario where Frame tends to run out of memory and is extremely sluggish.
SlyVote as well. I use it mainly for displaying text messages to let the (frame.js seems to parse ANSI a little better), and I use frame.js in SlyVote as well. I use it mainly for displaying text messages to let the user scroll through it. I'm wondering if ScrollBox would be better for
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