Browsers are pretty good at loading pages

Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by wlesieutre on Monday July 22, 2019 @12:55AM (#20495417)

Ah, the good old “footer at the bottom of an infinitely long page.”

Facebook and Google used to be guilty of this, but it’s been a while since I ran into that particular brand of user-hostile web design.

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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by wlesieutre on Monday July 22, 2019 @09:09AM (#20497630)

Addendum - I may have been too harsh here. The page most likely is not infinite. You should able to scroll through the entire backlog of dev.to content to access the footer.

Seriously though, you can't just bolt infinite scrolling into the middle of an existing page if you have content at the bottom.

They've duplicated most of that (but not the copyright) in the sidebar's "Key Links" box, so it's not as big a problem as I've seen on other sites.

If they hadn't, I wonder about the legal implications of making your privacy policy, terms of use, and copyright notice completely unreachable. And why keep them in the footer if you never leave it on screen long enough to click it? Just a "not my job" issue with whoever implemented the continuous scroll? Clearly someone thought about it long enough to put the links somewhere reachable, but not long enough to get rid of the old ones?

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