On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 17:22, Rahul Jain wrote:
> > I think you could certainly argue that we should provide some way for 
> > bloggers to have a page that shows XX entries in a row starting at entry 
> > YY, but when do people really want that functionality?
> >
> 
> The "Front Page" and "Group Blogs" are the two cases where we may need
> pagination. Most other pages, there seems to be only a small chance of
> some individual posting more than 15 entries in a day.

I'm not sure that I believe group blogs versus individual blogs really
has anything to do with it.  But you make a good point that any blog
that ends up with a lot of entries on a single day presents a more
interesting challenge in how it is displayed.

However, I would disagree that the "Front Page" of a blog should allow
for pagification.  I believe the main page of a blog is only meant to
provide a blog snapshot and simply display the last XX most recent
entries from that blog.  If someone wants to go beyond those XX entries
then they need to access that blogs archives, where we would allow for
pagification.  It's a somewhat subtle distinction between front page and
archives, which a casual user may not even notice, but i think it's
important to how we organize the data into pages.

-- Allen


> 
> I can see a group blog that could potentially have more than 15
> entries in a day, and users may want to get to them to follow the
> discussion.
> 
> It will be nice to see a link "prev page" and "next page" which could
> show the next page worth of entries.
> 
> For the "Front Page", my two cents, it will be nice to show all the
> entries for the day. For a popular blog site, this can be large and
> hence again we need to display them one page at at time.

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