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.
Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
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Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#12Past 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.
This made me laugh out loud :-D
Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#13Cloudflare 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.
Unplug ethernet?
Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#14Remove “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.
"Do not or footers and infinite scrolling"??
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#15I 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.
Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#16Don'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.
Not exactly the same, but theverge.com has recently decided to shove about 50 Outbrain ads, across 3-4 loads, in between the end of the article and the comment section. It makes me livid every time, yet still I go back :(.
Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#17Remove “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.
No, this is about normal footers ("tags near end of document"). The problem is that with infinite scrolling you can never reach the end of the document, it always slips away as new content loads.
Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#18Don'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.
Not exactly the same, but theverge.com has recently decided to shove about 50 Outbrain ads, across 3-4 loads, in between the end of the article and the comment section. It makes me livid every time, yet still I go back :(.
They need to make you carefully look through the ads somehow!
Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#19I 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.
Especially when you are trying to reach the RSS feed link in the footer, which you are desperately trying to reach since an RSS reader will allow you to avoid infinite scroll!
Re: Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
#20This is why you'll find the "© 2022 Twitter, Inc." footer in the right column of the twitter dot com website.