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I generally like page flips, like reading a PDF page by page instead of scrolling continuously. But the downside is that generally page-flipping is coupled with
by yason 16y ago
I generally like page flips, like reading a PDF page by page instead of scrolling continuously. But the downside is that generally page-flipping is coupled with fixed layout. And usually there's too much text on a single page, making the font absurdly small.
The good side about scrolling is that I can choose whatever font size I want and the page just grows as necessary while I can still scroll up and down. On the other hand it's a bit more difficult to locate yourself or jump around in a big chunk of scrolling text. PgDn/PgUp is a kind of a page flip but usability-wise it's better to have a bit of margin on top and bottom, just like on a real paper page. Then you know where the page ends and where the next page begins, and you don't have to scan the lines to see if the browser scrolled 100% or left 3 lines visible from the previous position or what.
I think I would like best a solution where the content is paginated but it would be dynamically fitted onto a page whose size is the browser window size. It would only fit as much text of proper size on one page that nicely fits there. If I use a big font, then it's 20 lines; if I use a small font, it's 40 lines. But I would still get pages, maybe fewer or more. A page would have proper margins and I could reason about navigating back to something I read "ten pages ago".