How about the iPhone approach, which is used for example in the mail client: when you reach the bottom of what's already loaded, you need to click in order to load more items, and you get an indication of how many items there are.
I think in some applications it's important to be able to load more items without losing the context of the original items. For example, I spent the last couple of hours looking for photos in a stock images website in order to illustrate a presentation. If I was able to have that sort of "infinite scroll", I could for example easily compare a thumbnail that would have normally been in the first page with one that would have been in the second page, without having to switch pages. As for the browser built-in search, while it's a great tool, it's a shame that it's not more integrated with the design of a webpage. It would be great if the page could get an "onsearch" event when the user invokes search to make sure all the content is loaded. It would also be a nice idea to be able to exclude certain areas of the page from searching, or demote the significance of a match in these areas, e.g. if I'm looking for the world "previous", a navigation label named "previous document" will create a spurious match. Cheers, Alex On Jan 30, 2008 3:24 PM, Kim Bieler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a neat implementation. However, there's something vaguely > Sisyphian about scrolling and scrolling and never getting to the bottom. > > I kind of like the "page 1 | 2 | 3" links because they tell me how > much content to expect. I'd prefer the Ajax pagination if it gave me > some indicator about how long it was going to keep adding content. > Another thought: with shorter pages, you keep the navigation and > identity information visible at the top of the screen. > > There are probably some applications for which this is an > improvement, however I'm not seeing it as a wholesale replacement. > > > -- Kim > > + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + > Kim Bieler Graphic Design > www.kbgd.com > c. 240-476-3129 > + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > *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 > ________________________________________________________________ *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
