Lion, however, does not like scrollbars. At all. Lion OS X despises scrollbars, so much so in fact, they do not exist. Unless you count their ephemeral fade in / fade out during page loading as some kind of existence.
But scrolling is a primary use case. We do it all the time. For some reason, by hiding scroll bars, Apple is saying, "Your scrolling means nada. I liked you better when you were nothing." Apple expects us to know there is more beyond the edge of the screen. Magically.
Apple does this on iPhones and iPads. Other companies do too. However, those screens are small. They almost always visibly clip whatever content is in them. Often, you can clearly see that more goodness lies beyond the screen edge. On big screens, this is not so obvious. We've even had customers filing bugs, because they thought we short-sheeted them on a few screens, after they upgraded to Lion. Thank you, Apple.
Would you like your scrollbars back? Yes, please. Then pay a visit to System Preferences. Click the General preference icon. Change Show scroll bars to Always.
At least Apple had the kindness and foresight to allow for scrollbar recovery. Thank you, Apple.
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