Infinite Win
How to do inifinite scrolling right
Isn't scrolling great?
- Spatial navigation
- Better than pagination for many use cases
Making it work with lots of data.
- Long list, known length*
- Really infinite, fixed height items
- Really infinite, variable height items
* Not actually infinite.
Long list: how not to do it
Scroll to the bottom, then add another page
- No idea length of content
- Can't jump to an arbitrary place
- Often breaks the back button…
Long list: how to do it right
- Fixed height items
- Progressively render
- Calculate visible section on scroll
Infinite list, fixed height items
- Fixed height scroll area
- Shift position if you get near the edge
Infinite list, variable height items
- Fixed number of items
- Shift position if you get near either end of the list