[Seaside] Re: Infinite Scrolling

[J.F. Rick]

Yep, infinite scrolling can be a bad idea. That said, you really need it if
you are going to do an updating feed, like Facebook.

Cheers,

Jeff

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:32 PM Mark RD Jones <redtexture at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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