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> This is not a good idea because it breaks years (decades?) of expected behaviour on desktops. I don't think thats really valid. How long have facebook and t
by mbell 14y ago
> This is not a good idea because it breaks years (decades?) of expected behaviour on desktops.
I don't think thats really valid.
How long have facebook and twitter (among others) been automatically updating the page with new tweets/feed content?
It seems to me that the expectation of 'static page state' is already gone for pages where this would be useful - sites with fast moving feeds of data. I'd really love reddit among others to have this feature.
I'd also add that there is a lot going on around 'push' technologies for many apps that also destroy the concept of a static page state, and many of those applications are loved by users and developers alike.
- lowboy 14y agoTwitter on my desktop has a notification that there are new tweets, and I haven't seen if FB automatically loads more content on the top or follows a similar approach. The point isn't that sites need to be static for the life cycle of a page reload, it's that the site shouldn't trigger a browser-level reload on an unrelated user action such as scrolling to the top of the page. It's confusing, and should be considered an anti-pattern as others here have said.