I just came across this today on konigi.com.thought it was
relevant to this discussion. Its an indicator on the side of the
page next to the scrollbar, that shows the relative size of a blog
post compared to the comments it generates. You can see it in action
here:
The perpetual scroll example above reminds me of the sequential access
paradigm of an audio cassette. You can't get to the middle until
you've scrolled through each section.
I think the dynamically built long pages would be easier to use if
they loaded with a visual representation of the whole
Pros vs. Cons for me so far coming from a commerce point of view.
A pro for me is helping the browsing user quickly and easily
continue on their browsing path with the least amount of distraction
possible. If a user happens upon the end of a page and is then shown
10 more results without having
On Oct 23, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Brian Mila wrote:
Does anyone remember when dropdown menus
were new, and they were all kludgy and awkward?
Are dropdown menus not kludgy and awkward now? Did I miss them memo?
:)
I agree that inifinite scroll, implemented well, has a lot of
potential. I think
If the v-scrollbar lies and showing different length every time I
visit, it's annoying and confusing. Also I'd have this nervous
feeling of never being able to reach the bottom of the page.
I agree in that I find it very annoying uncomfortable, makes it hard for me
to scan ahead in a page
The first time I saw saw infinite scroll implemented on a large
scale was in a July 2006 preview when Microsoft's Phil Holden,
director of Windows Live, previewed the September 2006 launch of a
whole suite of Windows Live tools as Microsoft transitioned from MSN.
Windows Live Image Search was
I wonder if you could address some of the I feel lost problems by
displaying tick marks in or near the scrollbar at every point that
the user stops scrolling. So if you see one full page, then scroll
down, the size and position of the scrollbar thumb may change, but
you could add a permanent tick
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
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
I've only once seen this done where it just wasn't that great, and
it wasn't the idea - it was... whatever the heck was done in the
backend because it took too long to pull the information across as
you scrolled.
Another example to add to the list of this which I very much like,
would be the new
Virtual scrollbar is a visual cue of how long the page is going to be.
It is one of the native visual language for most of the computer users
nowadays.
In my own experience, during the first half second when opening a new
page, I would quickly glance at the right side of the page for the
The perpetual scrolling behaviour can be achieved on many websites
(including Google) with this Firefox add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925 . Considering it's
quite popular there seem to people who enjoy this kind of behaviour
across all kinds of different websites.
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