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If the information you're searching for would have been in the next page, searching within the page would have been similarly "broken" in a paginated UI. The a
by notatoad 8y ago
If the information you're searching for would have been in the next page, searching within the page would have been similarly "broken" in a paginated UI.
The alternative to infinite scrolling isn't to load infinite data up front.
- tfigment 8y agoPagination at least gives a hint as to what is loaded and if i need to repeat search again on next page. This is harder when you don't know what is actually loaded without scrolling.
- astura 8y agoIf you are presented with pagination, you have a hint that there's more content to load and how much more, 2 pages or 100 pages? I know immediately that I have to repeat my search and how many times. You aren't "warned" of infinite scrolling upfront, you don't know there's unloaded content unless you scroll down. Nor do you have any idea when it will end. It's mystery meat navigation.
- batiudrami 8y agoBut if I found that content via a search engine I would have been directed to the correct page to find what I was looking for.
- edoceo 8y agoI've had many occasions of clicking links from G to land on a page that should have what I want, the cached copy did but the landed page doesn't
- setr 8y agoThat would be true of any site that updates its webpages at any time, regardless of static or dynamic webpages, and certainly regardless of pagination/infinite load. The only difference really is that infinite load almost guarantees the page won’t have what you want on it, when you visit it.
- edoceo 8y agoYep, exactly. And with my first problem, I can use the Next buttom and Ctrl+F (features others on this thread mentioned). Infinite load is not the right answer everywhere (anywhere?) Eg: What if StackOverflow adopted it?
- setr 8y ago>The alternative to infinite scrolling isn't to load infinite data up front. Lazy loading implies the opposite? Regardless, it being broken up is very useful for everything around the site usage. IE google-linking, sharing urls, bookmarking, etc. Infinite scroll is an optimization for first-time usage of a site, or for pages that are naturally read-once (ie twitter feed). They break everything surrounding n-use of the page.
- sunir 8y agoThe URL should change with either offset (which is dynamic) or ideally ID as cursor (which is static).