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Re:LinkedIn IPhone App's Infinite, Swipe-Able View Implement... by generateui on Friday May 04, 2012 @01:21PM (#3929387)
That's where inifinite scroll is a good idea. Infinite scroll is usually correctly applied to datasets where it is unknown how many items the dataset consists of. E.g. google images, tweets, et cetera.

We already have what you want, it's called a scrollbar ;).

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Re:LinkedIn IPhone App's Infinite, Swipe-Able View Implement... by lucian1900 on Friday May 04, 2012 @05:56PM (#3930513)
Where the dataset size is known, but just very large, a scroll bar and lazy loading of items is what I want.

For datasets with unknown size, just make sure scrolling is only ever needed for looking at previous pages.

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