[HN Gopher] Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling ___________________________________________________________________ Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling Author : harryvederci Score : 70 points Date : 2022-06-04 20:50 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (willfennel.com) (TXT) w3m dump (willfennel.com) | tuxie_ wrote: | If you are wondering what his argument is, just don't. | quickthrower2 wrote: | Remove "combine" and make it "or" | | I assume footer here means fixed position footer. The normal | footer or "tags near end of document" is fine by me. | tuxie_ wrote: | "Do not or footers and infinite scrolling"?? | alphabet9000 wrote: | missed opportunity to put the "just don't" message inside the | footer of a page with infinite scrolling | SnowHill9902 wrote: | Many e-commerce sites are guilty of this. | amanzi wrote: | Cloudflare used to do this with the DNS page. If you had a huge | zone file, you'd have to keep scrolling and scrolling and | scrolling until it finally stopped loading. I can't remember | exactly what is was but there was definitely an important | navigation item at the end of the zone that could only be | accessed after the entire zone had loaded. | andai wrote: | Unplug ethernet? | jessedrain wrote: | My friend and I had a good laugh about this article. Eloquent and | straight to the point. | smitty1e wrote: | Past all of the boilerplate and digressions, Fennel sounds as | though he's coming out against the use of infinite scrolling in | the web page footer. | harryvederci wrote: | This made me laugh out loud :-D | longrod wrote: | I wish this was made impossible by browsers. It's like making a | user chase their tail; they won't ever catch it. They just keep | going in circles until they explode with frustration. You can't | even cancel the requests to load more data. | | I have come across a couple of these (I think blogs & news sites | do this) and it is so annoying. | TimPC wrote: | But what if the footer contains the entire site navigation UI. | Then surely I can do this..,, | lobo_tuerto wrote: | Don't remember a specific instance, but I've seen this used in a | couple of sites. Kind of mind numbing. | | Try to read the text or click on a link in the footer, and if | you're lucky the request will be slow enough. | indymike wrote: | Shh. Don't tell the committee that designed the footer that no | one can ever see it. They'll want to go with the supermenu header | instead. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-04 23:00 UTC)