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I think you're comparing apples and pears when you talk about Maps. There's a clear use case for scrollbars on vertical documents (i.e. most of them), and even
by frereubu 6y ago
I think you're comparing apples and pears when you talk about Maps. There's a clear use case for scrollbars on vertical documents (i.e. most of them), and even when viewing something in an infinite scroll, so you know where you are when scrolling back up. (Although don't get me started on the UX of infinite scrolling!)
Edit: Thinking further about this, the affordance for maps is a change in the cursor to a grabbing hand. You have to learn that, but there's a clear visual difference in the cursor to show that something differnt happens there.
- thirdtry 6y agoI got bit by infinite scrolling yesterday. I liked an article, clicked in the URL, copied and pasted it into a group chat with my team... and then noticed it was the wrong URL. The fine website had "helpfully" autoscrolled a smidge into the next article, so it updated the URL box to the next article. Lesson learned-- read before pasting...
- derefr 6y agoYou might resent the autoscroll on the website, but did you consider that the group chat program also has an infinite scroll, for chat history? Imagine what a hypothetical scrollbar for the group-chat program would look like if it had one, and if that scrollbar actually represented your relative position in a complete timeline going back to when the chat-group was created. :)
- pseudalopex 6y agoConsider that an actual timeline is a better interface for chat history than an infinitely scrolling log.
- zbentley 6y agoGenuinely curious: what is the difference? Pagination? What are some examples of the two approaches?