vaadin/tori — Issue #51: Some sort of paging/loadmore functionality for threads in CategoryView
Author: wolfie
Created: 2011-12-01 14:16:56+00:00
State: open

Hedelmäpeli: Vertically paging (with scrolling animations) widget.

Benefits are intuitive location awareness for the user ("we're going down in the threads, thus we are looking at older stuff"), and location definition for programmatic purposes (static links with e.g. topmost thread id being the anchor, and when navigating in and out of the category/threads)

The downsides of pure paging is the ugliness of the pattern. There's no intuitive left and right directions in a (time-)sorted list

The downsides of pure "load more" are that you can only navigate in one dimension, one step at a time (without breaking the user's brain) and the DOM will grow huge up top, which causes problems for the user (lots to scroll up with) and the browser (memory omnomnom)