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Re: StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery.

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Post by knewter » Sat, Jul 21, 2012, 7:23 AM UTC

riffraff wrote: post #10

jarin wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's very useful for top-level navigation when using the "infinite scrolling" that seems to be so popular these days. It makes it so you don't have to scroll all the way back up when you're 10 pages deep.

how does this compare to having a "to top" button on the bottom of the page which appears when scrolling? I mean, I understand the difference between showing actual actions or giving more space to content, but I'd like to know of some real studies on it.

at the bottom...of the infinite scrolling page?

whoosh

Re: StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery.

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Post by knewter » Sat, Jul 21, 2012, 7:23 AM UTC

bluetidepro wrote: post #3

drharris wrote: post #2

Can any UX people illuminate the modern popularity of these things? I find them very distracting, and typically unusable. When I'm scrolling down the page, the function I'm performing is consumption of content. With a sidebar there begging me to click away (or worse, display ads and social media junk), it considerably reduces my desire to perform this function. It just reminds me of the Java applets in 1996 for sideb…

I think there is value in these types of sticky sidebars when they are used in the correct way. The correct way is when the sticky sidebar is a key of some sort. Links that jump around the current article for quick jumping. However, I agree, I can't stand when sites use these for ads or social media junk.

theverge is a GREAT example

Re: StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery.

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Post by riffraff » Sat, Jul 21, 2012, 8:52 AM UTC

knewter wrote: post #21

riffraff wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how does this compare to having a "to top" button on the bottom of the page which appears when scrolling? I mean, I understand the difference between showing actual actions or giving more space to content, but I'd like to know of some real studies on it.

at the bottom...of the infinite scrolling page? whoosh

no, at the bottom of the window/viewport when scrolling.