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We do the same thing for the Notifo iPhone app, except our "magic number" is 1. If you are the top of the list, new notifications slide in and push the list dow
by jazzychad 16y ago
We do the same thing for the Notifo iPhone app, except our "magic number" is 1. If you are the top of the list, new notifications slide in and push the list down. If you are scrolled down past the first notification, new notifications load in, but the list stays still (a non-trivial thing to do with UITableViews). I never knew the mail app did the same thing (I have mine set to refresh manually); it just seemed like the reasonable thing to do.
- ugh 16y agoTwitter’s Mac app does this, too, it also only scrolls if you are not farther down than one tweet. (Automatic scrolling, which is off by default, has to be enabled.)
- btrask 16y agoMost (probably all) chat clients (IM and IRC) do this too. I think it is more common than the author gives credit for. It's invisible unless it's missing.
- dansingerman 16y agoI think the best UIs are generally full of the "invisible unless it's missing stuff". Thats the subtle stuff that is often hard to get right.
- thwarted 16y agoFriendfeed implements this, on the website, and I really wish quora would also. I'm always in the middle of reading something on quora when the content moves around. It's particularly jarring on mobile devices, I lose my place a lot.
- Splines 16y agoSlightly OT, but I use and love Notifo. After recently getting an Android phone I've discovered that Android's notification mechanism absolutely destroys the minimalistic implementation on iOS.