[Seaside] Re: Infinite Scrolling

[Mark RD Jones]

Commentary on Infinite Scrolling,
and the better and worse varieties of implemetation.

Hacker News - April 22, 2015
"Ask HN: Please stop making infinite scrolling websites"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416017


On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:08 AM, J.F. Rick <self at je77.com> wrote:
> Cool. Thanks for sharing.
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 7:35 PM Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I made an JQWidgetBox endless scroll widget a while ago, but never shared
>> it
>> I guess.  I just uploaded it to Smalltalkhub.  see:
>> http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Seaside/JQueryWidgetBox
>>
>> Its a plugin for https://github.com/fredwu/jQuery-Endless-Scroll
>>
>> I'm not sure if/how the Widget is out of sync with the JS code in the git
>> repo but its a start.
>>
>>
>> I used it like this:
>>
>>
>> renderEndlessScroll: html with: aRequest with: id
>>
>>         html
>>                 script:
>>                         (((html jQuery id: id) endlessScroll)
>>                                 fireDelay: 5000;
>>                                 fireOnce: true;
>>                                 bottomPixels: 850;
>>                                 insertAfter: '.results:visible:last';
>>                                 visible: '#' , id;
>>                                 callback:
>>                                                 (html jQuery ajax
>>                                                                 script: [
>> :s |
>>                                                                         s
>> << (s jQuery class: 'loader') show.
>>                                                                         s
>> << (s jQuery class: 'results:visible:last')
>>
>> replaceWith: [ :h |     | moreItems |
>>
>> moreItems := self getMoreResults: aRequest.
>>
>> self renderMoreItems: moreItems from: aRequest at: id on: h ].
>>                                                                         s
>> << (s jQuery class: 'shown:visible')
>>
>> replaceWith: [ :h |
>>
>> (h span)
>>
>> class: 'shown';
>>
>> with: [html strong: aRequest results oldResults size
>> asStringWithCommas ] ] ]))
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> jrick wrote
>> > I'm implementing a blog with many posts. I'd like to implement infinite
>> > scrolling
>> > &lt;http://www.sitepoint.com/jquery-infinite-scrolling-demos/&gt; so
>> > that only a few posts get loaded initially and then subsequent posts get
>> > loaded once the person scrolls to the bottom of the page. I'd like to
>> > use
>> > AJAX prepend to make this happen.
>> >
>> > Has anyone implemented something similar? Is there a good way to trigger
>> > a
>> > seaside ajax call based on an element appearing on screen or a scroll
>> > event
>> > reaching near the bottom?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Jeff
>> >
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>>
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