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One of my favorite features of infinite scroll is how it can make clicking on the footer of a page nearly impossible. E.g. try clicking on "About" or "Careers" on the bottom of http://venturebeat.com
It still jumps around if you hold and drag the scrollbar - always my complaint with these.
I wonder how many people do hold and drag the scrollbar, I am so used to scrolling using a touchpad on Mac and mousewheel on PC, so I never even touch a scrollbar.
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I also wonder about "memory problems", but of the soft kind. I like to consuming "pages" of content at a time, spread between many tabs. Usually I read to the bottom of a "page", and then switch tabs. When I come back to that tab, I'm ready to go to the next page. But with infinite scrolling, I feel like I'd be re-reading content to find my exact spot I left off..
Isn't that sort of what the OP is attempting to solve? It's paginated but still scrolls infinitely.
I agree the parent post, I'd like to keep where I was when I open each link in a new tab. Then the infinite scroll just helps to eliminate the click of the next page.
I would feel kind of okay with infinite scroll if it wasn't creating memory problems. Especially on image-heavy (tumblr) / DOM-heavy (facebook) pages. If I browsed the web in 90s mode (one window, one page opened) that would maybe work, but when I have dozens of tabs opened, youtube playing in background and I start browsing an endless memory-hungry page, my laptop (3 GB RAM) starts dying. Another issue is the one me…
When you're loading more elements at the bottom - drop the equivalent count of elements from the top of the list. Problem solved.
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There's an elegant way to add some sort of progress indicator to infinite scroll. I just haven't figured it out yet :)
Have a little screen overlay that displays how much memory your browser is using. As it climbs higher and higher, you'll know that you are making progress.
I'm surprised at how many people here seem to like infinite scroll. I personally can't stand it. Imagine having a book where no matter how much you read, it never seems to end. No milestones, no sense of progress. Just page after page after page. It just feels... icky.
There's an elegant way to add some sort of progress indicator to infinite scroll. I just haven't figured it out yet :)
Why do so many designers/developers of pages with infinite scroll forget they put their footer menu in there and it is now inaccessible due to the scroll ?
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You could solve a lot of problems with position: absolute and javascript, which you assume is on. A bigger problem is that mobile safari doesn't let you execute js during scroll. One way around that is by hsing iScroll which fakes scrolling using CSS.
You can use the touchmove event to do things while mobile safari scrolls.