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Re:Airbnb Releases Infinity.js: A Javascript Library for Smo... by marknutter on Friday August 17, 2012 @09:31AM (#4396219)
I agree it should be done well, but I don't agree you always need pages. For instance, when I use google images, I'm usually just looking for a few specific images in a sea of pictures and I don't care too much about keeping my place in that list. I care a lot more about being able to quickly scan through a very large grid of images, though, which infinite scrolling allows me to do.
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Re:Airbnb Releases Infinity.js: A Javascript Library for Smo... by s_henry_paulson on Friday August 17, 2012 @10:05AM (#4396377)
The one caveat here is, if you're going to use infinite scrolling. Don't have links on the bottom of the page!

Sites like Facebook do this, and I have no idea why.

Want to "Create a page". Well there's a link at the bottom. But if you scroll to the bottom of the page, it's going to load more content and push the link down.

I just tried it, and the page reloaded 15 times before I gave up... never did get to the link.

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Re:Airbnb Releases Infinity.js: A Javascript Library for Smo... by isnotchicago on Friday August 17, 2012 @11:38AM (#4396916)
On the right sidebar, under "Facebook (c) 2012" should be duplicates of all of the links at the bottom of the page. For the "Create a page" link, you have to click "More".

This is clearly unintuitive, but at least it exists.

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Re:Airbnb Releases Infinity.js: A Javascript Library for Smo... by J0415 on Friday August 17, 2012 @11:31AM (#4396857)
Its probably there just in case scroll detection breaks. Some browsers - specifically BlackBerry browser (v4.6 to 5.0) - support AJAX lazy loading but don't support the scroll event.
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