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> I feel this is under-appreciated in today's world, where scrolling is being forced on us everywhere. Scrolling sucks for reading text. Every time you scroll,
by Thrymr 6y ago
> I feel this is under-appreciated in today's world, where scrolling is being forced on us everywhere. Scrolling sucks for reading text. Every time you scroll, you have to pay attention to how much you scrolled, and then find your place in the text again.
This is incredibly important, and something that dedicated book readers like Kindles get right, but I've never seen done well in long web pages. Discrete "pages" (that correspond to "screens") make it much easier to find your place as you go to the next page. Note that multipart web pages often have you scroll through each "page" separately, and give you the worst of both worlds. Sure, PDF isn't always best for reading on a computer or phone screen, but infinite scrolling is annoying too.
- rainonmoon 6y agoAnchor tags have existed in HTML for thousands of years.
- john-doe 6y ago1992 to be precise! I actually made a minimal SSG based on them: https://portable.fyi/#2020-11-27-this-blog-is-a-single-html-file https://portable.fyi/#2020-11-27-this-blog-is-a-single-html-... Printing this page to PDF outputs the whole website, one post per page.