[HN Gopher] Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
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       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.
        
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