Reddit used to do that. Dunno if they still. Remember trying to scroll to the bottom to click a crucial link. Quite funny. I think it was the settings-scrollmode menu.
Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
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Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#22Don'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.
Gotta use the ol' turn off wifi to hit the bottom trick.
Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#23Don'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.
I've experienced sites with infinites scoll footers where the disable button is... on the footer.
Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#24Don'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.
Google images page is an example
Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#25Shh. 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.
I thought he referred to sticky footers.
Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#26Shh. 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.
That's okay. The menu items in the header will drop down on hover, making it very easy to use when the user is scrolling the page. :)
Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#27I 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.
It’s possible I’m lacking imagination after ~20 years of web dev experience, but I can’t think of a way to systematically prevent this. I can hardly even think of a heuristic to detect it which wouldn’t be either overly broad or overly specific. A spec which privileged more of a page’s “chrome” as part of the browser UX would probably make that more realistic, at the expense of being a very high value attack surface.
This is almost certainly better addressed by discouraging and shaming than by trying to fix it at the browser level. I agree with the clarity and brevity of the article (even if I can’t muster such brevity to save my life). And it’s very rare that this kind of UX is any more onerous to me than closing the tab/leaving the site.
Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#28Past 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.
All that nuance is important lest the point be misunderstood or misconstrued.
Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#29There are a couple of HN plug-ins that enable infinite scrolling and disregard the accessibility to the footer. Super annoying.