After 2 years of reading Hacker News, I'm happy to finally have been able to contribute something to the discussion here.
To those who hate infinite scroll: I totally understand. I just wanted to try my hand at making a better version.
There's been some concern about my use of window.onpopstate to "un-add" the nodes infinite scroll added instead of just leaving the entire page for the referring page. I hadn't thought about the potential to essentially trap people on the page as they use the back button to navigate through the history stack their scrolling added. I really didn't mean to screw things up for people! I might want to remove that "feature".
Really nicely done, works wonderfully. Pity updating the address bar doesn't work in many browsers yet. One request: Could you try experimenting with deleting old pages when you scroll really far? Infinite scrolling takes a pretty heavy toll on my netbook.
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After 2 years of reading Hacker News, I'm happy to finally have been able to contribute something to the discussion here.
To those who hate infinite scroll: I totally understand. I just wanted to try my hand at making a better version.
There's been some concern about my use of window.onpopstate to "un-add" the nodes infinite scroll added instead of just leaving the entire page for the referring page. I hadn't thought about the potential to essentially trap people on the page as they use the back button to navigate through the history stack their scrolling added. I really didn't mean to screw things up for people! I might want to remove that "feature".
Really nicely done, works wonderfully. Pity updating the address bar doesn't work in many browsers yet. One request: Could you try experimenting with deleting old pages when you scroll really far? Infinite scrolling takes a pretty heavy toll on my netbook.
I thought this was very well-written, thank you.