Patent ID: 7434173

Claim:
A method of providing a display control mechanism for information in a handheld computer or tablet PC, comprising: displaying information of a webpage in a display area on a display in said data processing system, the displayed information comprising at least one interactive element and non-interactive element of said webpage; displaying a cursor on said display, said cursor capable of being activated by an input device; detecting activation of said cursor; determining an activation position of said cursor, said activation position being the position of said cursor on said display at which said detected activation occurred, said activation position being determined in relation to the at least one interactive element and non-interactive element; detecting movement of said cursor after being activated; and in response to detecting said activation and movement, determining whether the display area on the display is to be scrolled by performing the following: determining whether the portion of said webpage at the activation position contains an interactive element or non-interactive element of said webpage, if the portion of said webpage is determined to contain a non-interactive element of said webpage, scrolling the displayed information in tandem with said movement of said cursor in the display area, and if the portion of said webpage is determined to contain an interactive element of said webpage, making a further determination as to whether to activate the contained interactive element or perform scrolling of the display area based on a defined behavior for the contained interactive element.