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I also appreciated the dynamic progression indicator at the top of the page. Some of these journal articles are organized and written such that there is no end
by iplaw 9y ago
I also appreciated the dynamic progression indicator at the top of the page. Some of these journal articles are organized and written such that there is no end in sight -
it's hard to intuitively know where you are in the article, if you are nearly the buried results/conclusion, etc. The simply indicator tracks progress through the article without having to glance at the oft-invisible right-side scrollbar.
- retox 9y agoI haven't had that problem as far as I can remember, I rely on the (very thin) scroll bar that's shown on firefox for android. I'm diverging into off-topic territory now, but I stopped reading the featured article because of the large static header div. Am I in the minority of mobile users who spends all the time in horizontal mode? It seems that probably 50% of mainstream blog or news sites I come across have some sort of obnoxious static header or footer (or worst, both!) that takes up a huge portion of the view when horizontal. Usually useless shit like a link to the main page, or their social media mention count. I take a screenshot of the worst offenders but I haven't posted them anywhere. The absolute criminal in this respect is tech crunch. You MUST orient to portrait and click the expand article button to read anything. Really unprofessional and disappointing, I avoid their links if I catch it in time. Sorry, rant over.
- jamessb 9y agoSimilarly, PDFs of articles in the PeerJ family of journals (e.g. [1]) have a progress bar symbol at the bottom-right of each page, which is also a nice feature. [1]: https://peerj.com/articles/cs-103.pdf https://peerj.com/articles/cs-103.pdf