Comments on: Endless Pageless: Keep scrolling for more content

By: susheelv123

susheelv123 — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:30:42 +0000

That was a good explanation to implement ajax page loading on scroll down. But I am unable to see the link to search.js file to look up the code.

By: Dumky

Dumky — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:34:11 +0000

For those interested, I just wrote a Flickr mod (using Greasemonkey) to implement endless scrolling in Flickr results. It makes Flickr much friendlier and addictive in my opinion. Try Flickr - Single Page Results. Same thing for Google results. Try Google - Single Page Results.

By: portrait artist

portrait artist — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:57:19 +0000

The Gmail mobile application is indeed gaining more popularity lately. Iâ€™m glad that youâ€™ve cleared this out.

By: Paul’s Blog » Blog Archive » Ajax Pagination (and applying it to Wordpress)

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:53:50 +0000

[...] The trendiest new way to do it, which recently featured on Ajaxian, has been described on occasions as ‘lazy pagination’ (or at the least, that’s what I’m calling it) or ‘endless pageless’. Instead of requiring the user to click any buttons, it loads the data as they scroll. When they reach the bottom of the current page, an AJAX request is sent, and fetches the next lot of results. When they reach the end of the new data, rinse and repeat. [...]

By: Naik’s News » Have you had your cute overload today?

Naik’s News » Have you had your cute overload today? — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:09:40 +0000

[...] Today they show off a continuous scrolling trick like what Google Reader uses. [...]

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links for 2006-11-13 « Stubblog — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:36:19 +0000

[...] Ajaxian Â» Endless Pageless: Keep scrolling for more content Create a pageless scroller that polls the server for data as you scroll down. (tags: ajax Events howto interface prototype reference web2.0 scrolling pageless Usability JavaScript) [...]

By: Mario

Mario — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:39:50 +0000

Then get creative and make the contact info float like the feedback indicator [ + ] on amazon or paypal. 8/

By: c3o

c3o — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:57:39 +0000

Doesn’t this destroy the whole concept of variable length scrollbars? They provide important context that is now lost.
And what if I’m actually trying to scroll to the bottom, looking for contact links or something?

By: Edward Vermillion

Edward Vermillion — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:58:18 +0000

Didn’t books (paging) replace scrolls (endless scrolling) a looong time ago? Am I the only one that absolutely abhors scrolling forever? To call this more “Humane” and say that the reader doesn’t have to make any additional effort to read more is a bunch of hooey… I still have to scroll… and it makes my wrist hurt… that’s not humane…

That aside, it is a cool excercise in coding… although to me a useless excercise… but still cool…

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:52:21 +0000

Who uses a pocket PC anyway?

By: S Rimell

S Rimell — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:01:28 +0000

I have to say, this is rather neat!

By: A Good Application of Ajax on iface thoughts

A Good Application of Ajax on iface thoughts — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:56:50 +0000

[...] The Humanized Reader (via Ajaxian) is a good application of AJAX. This can solve usability issues with pages like search results or browsing through archives. The key is that the user does not have to take any additional effort to read more. Pete Forde has the meat about creating endless pageless experience using Prototype. [...]

By: Gilles

Gilles — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:33:29 +0000

In reply to Dan and Dinah; Instead of scrolling down using the scrollbar, you could also add an horizontal slider at the bottom of the page. Lets say you have 20 pages. Normal paginators go from [ 1,2,3,5 ..... 20 ] meaning you can’t quickly go to page 10. A normal reaction is; show more pages! But what if there is limited screen width? e.g. developing on a mobile application? A slider is far more natural. I am therefore very interested in this technique, but i am going to use it for implementing a sliider technique. Need more proof? Ever seen a pocketpc user tap his screen 10 times if he needed to go to page 10? Why not implement a slider, let them slide to page 10 and show a tooltip which records are on that page.. Just my 0.02$

By: Dinah Sanders

Dinah Sanders — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:44:34 +0000

Very interesting, but I would raise the same issue as in the prior comment: how do you maintain context? How could I, for example, carry on with yesterday’s research where I might ordinarily know I got to page 6?

That is probably addressable by re-writing the location with context so that it’s bookmarkable and apparent to the user.

The larger question that comes to mind, of course, is how do you make something like this accessible?

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:28:36 +0000

The day Google implements this for search results is the day I will stop using Google. This approach is indeed helpful for reading an article and some other uses – not for searching. Who actually likes live search? When you find a link after scrolling for 30 seconds, close the browser, “Oh crap” I need that link, re-search, and have to scroll for 30 more seconds to find it again – not so good. If I find a link on page 5, There’s a pretty good chance I can find it if I go back to the same page. I might try page 4 first, but I’ll get there before I would have scrolling. Forever. And for the jerks that will say “Check your history”, not everyone keeps a history, or what if I’m on a public computer, or a million other cases. At the very least, give the user the option of scroll forever until your wrist dies, or paging. I pick paging.

By: Kris Zyp

Kris Zyp — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:57:55 +0000

It will be nice when google implements this for search results.

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:06:17 +0000

This time with spell check! 8).
We also use an Ajax pooling object to take several Ajax requests per second and combine them into 1 request every â€˜nâ€™ seconds. This helps with overhead. Using server cached images, with server cached image maps, attaching them to the images when they load, and continuous scrolling works great.

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:59:42 +0000

I use the ‘endless scrolling’ technique w/ prototype for a image based gannt view. I scroll horizontally instead of virtical. It is great and helps with load times for long spans of time becuase we only load the smallest view first and let it expand as they scroll.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:03:18 +0000

We implemented this on klipfolio.com back in march. It’s a great way to save bandwidth, and speeds up the browsing process in general.

When building it we agonized over the proper way to handle the ‘back’ button. Rather than preload all the pages they were up to, we just started at the last page they were on (so, if they were on page 5, instead of getting 1-5 when they hit ‘back’, they start at 5), and implemented a backwards “Pageless” mechanism. Otherwise, prefetching all the pages would be a huge bandwidth hog once you’ve move down a couple of pages.

I’m not totally sold on the automatic fetching of data when you hit the bottom — instead preferring the traditional click of a ‘next’ link — but it is a nice touch =)

you can see an example page here:

http://www.klipfolio.com/index.php?action=explore,listing&by=all&sort=popularity

By: Oliver Tse

Oliver Tse — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:30:44 +0000

Nice! I love this concept. It is getting prevalent. Bill Scott had a blog entry on a similar topic called live grid. Live.net has image scrolling this way and the Google Reader does this as well. Hopefully (at least for me), we’ll see more of this.