It's an odd one, and feels like it fits browsing better than search. For instance, I love it on www.flickriver.com, where I can browse endlessly through photos, but I wouldn't like it as default Google behaviour. I'm not quite sure why that is.. I can think of two possibilities:
1) It feels more 'manageable' to get pages of search results that aren't more than a couple of screens or so. I can quickly scan this page and assess the results. 2) There's the possibility, even if you dont use it much, to skip through non-consecutive results. With an infinite scroll interface, you can't skip - you have to load sequentially. Other aspects are browser related - as mentioned you can't use the back button to return to previous results, and you can't easily get a permalink to your current screen. 2009/10/21 Chad Mortensen <chad...@gmail.com> > I've been noticing more and more Ajax powered pages where at the end > of the normal page end a call is made to fetch more content and is > added to the bottom of the page, in essence making the page longer on > the fly. A good example of this is on http://www.haystack.com > Twitter and Facebook do something similar but a button or link is > needed to expand the content. > > I can a usability issue with clicking on a link and then having the > back button not return you to the same 'long' page you left from. > > This seems like a great way to display a shopping cart type list, or > search results. > > Can anyone think of other usability issues with going this route? > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- http://formd.net ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
