mbielanczuk/jQuery.Gantt — Issue #17: Keyboard sensitive slider
Author: Eccenux
Created: 2012-01-19 10:46:06+00:00
State: open

I think you should use range typed input for the slider/scroll. I really like what is done in jQuery mobile as you can move the slider left/right with keyboard and mouse scroll (when the input is active).

See here for an example HTML5 slider:
http://code.jquery.com/mobile/latest/demos/docs/about/getting-started.html