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Comment by Dalewyn

Infinite scrolling is universally bad for one, very simple reason: It breaks the scroll bar.

One of the purposes of a scroll bar is to indicate how long (and/or wide) some piece of content is relative to your window. Another purpose is to indicate your current X/Y position within some piece of content.

Both of those purposes are completely broken with the use of infinite scrolling, because the length (and/or width) of the content keeps changing (increasing) and thus your position in that content also keeps changing.

I shouldn't have to explain how terrible this is from both accessibility and simple practicality standpoints.

parent Dalewyn 4 years ago

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