> Once the vertical scrollbar reaches the > bottom it triggers a new page to load. Unlike its common use in separate > frames(i.e. the inbox of Hotmail Live), ajax pagination(weird name) > attaches a new full page to the end of the current one. So, we end up with > a continuous scroll bar and therefore a continuous content.
Thanks for bringing this up again, Etkin. Three real-world examples I've found are: The Humanized Reader http://humanized.com/reader/ Google Reader (I use this daily and love it, for the most part) http://reader.google.com A9 http://a9.com/ I have been referring to it as "infinite scroll" -- not sure whether I made that term up or if I heard it somewhere. I'm interested to know what other good examples of this people have found. Overall, I agree that its value entirely depends on the user's expectations for the page. It works well for me for RSS viewing because I have no desire to do anything other than keep reading when I get to the bottom of a page of articles. The trickiness comes in with other features -- for example, Google Reader has to guess that if I've scrolled past something, that means I've "read" it and its state should therefore be changed, so I won't see that article again. This isn't always necessarily a safe assumption, and it can be quite irksome at times. Meredith ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Meredith Noble Information Architect, Usability Matters Inc. 416-598-7770, ext. 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
