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infinite scroll is mystery meat anyway. It breaks the standard affordance of the scroll bar -- that the length of the scroll bar reflects the total length of th
by tjpick 16y ago
infinite scroll is mystery meat anyway. It breaks the standard affordance of the scroll bar -- that the length of the scroll bar reflects the total length of the page. One of those cases where trying to get clever just results in frustrated users (me) because of unexpectedly changing an interaction that otherwise would be taken for granted.
- jacobolus 16y agoBy “infinite scroll” the author is just talking about every normal web page (e.g. some Wikipedia article), not about the (indeed, potentially confusing) case where a site loads extra content using Ajax every time the reader approaches the bottom of the page.
- tjpick 16y agoah right. Never seen "infinite scroll" used to mean normal scrolling [arguably "finite" not that I'd actually bother calling it that.] That threw me off.