highslide-software/highcharts.com — Issue #495: Navigator scroll bar becomes unusable when the displayed time range is small relative to the total time range
Author: kgetz
Created: 2011-10-11 22:43:24+00:00
State: open

As a concrete example, let's say the total time range is one month of data, and the user is viewing a 5 minute or 1 minute window (e.g. to see the most recent data). In that case, the horizontal scroller becomes unusably thin (probably one pixel wide):

http://tinypic.com/r/2ihxi76/7

Here's a magnified version:

http://tinypic.com/r/2my3k82/7

Google Finance handles this problem by maintaining a minimum width for the horizontal scroller.