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A comment on Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll?.

Re:Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll? by kzahel on Thursday February 27, 2014 @05:25PM (#7315668)
One of my favorite features of infinite scroll is how it can make clicking on the footer of a page nearly impossible. E.g. try clicking on "About" or "Careers" on the bottom of http://venturebeat.com
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Re:Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll? by fiatjaf on Thursday February 27, 2014 @07:02PM (#7316295)
You would be happy to live here in my town where the faster internet connection possible is 700kbps and you have plenty of time to click on footers of pages while the infinite scroll is loading.
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Re:Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll? by toxik on Thursday February 27, 2014 @05:29PM (#7315693)
There's a link to the footer, and the footer links are in a fixed footer that is always visible. Not super-pretty but I think infinite scroll just means no footer.
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Re:Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll? by jfoster on Thursday February 27, 2014 @05:41PM (#7315766)
On Facebook there is a footer, and seemingly no way to get to it unless you find a short enough page or manage to get to it faster than the infinite scroll can load.
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Re:Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll? by garethadams on Thursday February 27, 2014 @05:43PM (#7315780)
All of the links in the footer are also at the bottom of the right-hand main column
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Re:Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll? by jfoster on Thursday February 27, 2014 @06:13PM (#7315967)
Thank you for pointing that out. I think that area might have been a blind-spot for me. (immediately below the ads)
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Re:Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll? by syntern on Thursday February 27, 2014 @11:37PM (#7317269)
This is an implementation choice, and not the failure of infinite scrolling: you could embed the infinite scrolling inside a DIV and have a visible footer DIV underneath. Or alternatively, implement a sticky footer, or e.g. a fixed footer that appears on certain conditions.
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