by Nick Babich
Infinite scrolling
Infinite scrolling, also known as endless scrolling, is an approach to web design where new material is continually dynamically added to the bottom of the page as the user scrolls downward, leading to the apparent ability to scroll forever. This is in contrast to pagination, where material is divided into discrete pages.
Scroll-Enhanced Experiences | Carmen Ansio | CSS Day 2024
Evolving the infinite canvas
In the digital world, especially on the web, we’re used to things being stacked vertically. Scrolling, scrolling, through boxes of content,
Pagefind
Pagefind is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure.
(PDF) The Loop and Reasons to Break It: Investigating Infinite Scrolling Behaviour in Social Media Applications and Reasons to Stop
PDF | Today's social media (SM) platforms are toolkits consisting of features with different use cases, some strongly related to habitual and regretful... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Solving Performance for 2D & 3D Web Apps: Finally!
Hamburger Footer: Reaching the Bottom of Infinite Scroll
Infinite scroll (endlessly scrolling websites) can be annoying when you want to get to the footer section. A common technique is to move the footer to the bottom of the sidebar – Twitter do that... but what if you don't have a sidebar? Put the footer with the header navigation?
Pippin Williamson Shakes Up Page Builder Plugins with Critical Review
Pippin Williamson has published a comprehensive review of some of the most popular WordPress page builder plugins. The post has received more than 90 comments and is already inspiring changes acros…
In Defense of Readers
As web designers, we concern ourselves with how users move from page to page, but forget the needs of those whose purpose is to be still. Learn the design techniques that create a mental space for …
Carousels with CSS | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Support scroll experiences with navigation buttons and markers with just a few lines of CSS.
Web bloat isn’t a knowledge problem | Christian Heilmann
There is a consensus among all browser makers and lovers of the web: the current state of the web is a mess. The average web page is 2.4 megabyte big and has over 200 requests.
🧵 On social media, we feel trapped in “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers.” Often, we see this as a problem with the algorithm. Our new essay argues the problem is the feed interface itself: it constrains our movement—all we can do is scroll. We lay out an alternative vision:
From Feeds to Trails
leaflet.pubYou have to mainline info all the time because our information tools make you do so. Infinite scroll timelines, group chats with no beginning or end, recommender algorithms with no sense of place — all of them require constant vigilance to make sense of. We can do better.
Charlie Warzel
had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane
