> However, when I tried Google's 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 results
> preferences, it was much easier for me to scan through 10 results,
> didn't require as much scrolling (which is painful to people with
> repetitive stress injuries, fibromyalgia, arthritis, etc.),
Speaking as someone with RSI problems, I'd WAAAAYY rather scroll rather
than paginate. Pagination is Pure Evil for me, and it is _much_ easier
for me to Page Up/Down in a scrollable region than to attempt to line up
my cursor with every page and click a next button (if it's even visible
to begin with, which means you're back to scrolling AND wrestling with
pages...).*
The one exception to that is when the list fits exactly in a screen's
worth of browser real estate (i.e. "above the fold"), and a Next button
is consistently in the same spot every time and I don't have to move my
mouse pointer (i.e. it just _happens_ to be on the same spot every time
where the Next button resides). That situation is generally pretty
exciting to me, and it is also... extremely... rare.
So, if I can adjust a list to display 100+ items I'll do it!
Here's an even better example, however:
Google Reader.
Its infinite scrolling** is awesome: it just loads up new items when it
needs them. Awesome!
...and since it's pretty easy to get an enormous list of RSS feed
entries (especially if you go away on vacation for a couple of days! ;),
GR's mode of scrolling is very effective for me.
Obviously, this is just how it affects me in _my_ particular case, and
YMMV.
HTH.
///eks
* This got me thinking just now... perhaps linking Page Up and Page Down
keys to previous and next (or the reater than/less than keys since they
*look* like prev/next arrows) would be a nice way to enhance pagination?
Anyone already doing either of these interactions on the web?
** If Google Reader has a scrolling limit, I haven't encountered it.
They seem to employ a similar concept of Google Maps' map scrolling to a
list of data.
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