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> Modals and Pop-Ups - You’ve seen this before. You click on a link to a news article or a blog post, and a gigantic modal pop-up window covers the content. Thi

by nhebb 13y ago

> Modals and Pop-Ups - You’ve seen this before. You click on a link to a news article or a blog post, and a gigantic modal pop-up window covers the content. This makes absolutely no sense. The first thing that popped into my head was Twitter, when you click on @someone and get a popup instead of just going to their full feed.

jeffmould 13y ago
I actually kind of like that feature (if you can call it that). There are times when I am scanning through the feed and I see something interesting retweeted. I don't want to lose my place, but I am curious to see quickly who the person is that initially made the tweet. The popup is a quick way to do that without having to open another window or lose your place.
- adamtj 13y ago
  That's what the back button is for. I will take you back to where you were before you clicked a link, including scroll down the page to the correct position.
  - Jare 13y ago
    Unfortunately, it doesn't work with infinite scroll pages or other stateful types of sites.
    - prawks 13y ago
      Sites like Discourse allow for back button navigation on their infinite scrolls.
    - csense 13y ago
      Infinite scrolling is another thing that should be avoided.
  - nollidge 13y ago
    Not on Twitter it won't, because when you hit "back", there's 65 new tweets at the top of your timeline, so your position is not the same.
    - Moru 13y ago
      And that brings us to another annoying thing newbie webdevelopers do. Infinitely scrolling webpages. Hate them. Breaks all my old habits with back-buttons, or leaving a webpage open in the browser for the next day to continue reading.
      - tomjakubowski 13y ago
        Let's be fair: it's a thing newbie (or newbie-minded) product designers ask for, which the web developers then implement.
  - jeffmould 13y ago
    Unfortunately on Twitter and other infinite scroll pages the back button doesn't take you back to where you were exactly. The position gets thrown off based on the new tweets in the timeline.

by nhebb 13y ago

jeffmould 13y ago

I actually kind of like that feature (if you can call it that). There are times when I am scanning through the feed and I see something interesting retweeted. I don't want to lose my place, but I am curious to see quickly who the person is that initially made the tweet. The popup is a quick way to do that without having to open another window or lose your place.

adamtj 13y ago
That's what the back button is for. I will take you back to where you were before you clicked a link, including scroll down the page to the correct position.
- Jare 13y ago
  Unfortunately, it doesn't work with infinite scroll pages or other stateful types of sites.
  - prawks 13y ago
    Sites like Discourse allow for back button navigation on their infinite scrolls.
  - csense 13y ago
    Infinite scrolling is another thing that should be avoided.
- nollidge 13y ago
  Not on Twitter it won't, because when you hit "back", there's 65 new tweets at the top of your timeline, so your position is not the same.
  - Moru 13y ago
    And that brings us to another annoying thing newbie webdevelopers do. Infinitely scrolling webpages. Hate them. Breaks all my old habits with back-buttons, or leaving a webpage open in the browser for the next day to continue reading.
    - tomjakubowski 13y ago
      Let's be fair: it's a thing newbie (or newbie-minded) product designers ask for, which the web developers then implement.
- jeffmould 13y ago
  Unfortunately on Twitter and other infinite scroll pages the back button doesn't take you back to where you were exactly. The position gets thrown off based on the new tweets in the timeline.