2018/Berlin/pagination

Pagination was a session at IndieWebCamp Berlin 2018.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/pagination

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IndieWebCamp Berlin 2018
Session: Pagination
When: 2018-11-03 13:15

Participants

• Tantek Çelik
• Peter Molnar
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Notes

Background:

• pagination

Related:

• navigation
• archive

• summary
  • identify your stream's guiding/sorting factor (e.g. date)
  • align pagination to that (and multiples of that)
  • don't split entries into pages (what does this mean? - there are content providers which show a single article in multiple pages, eg. part 1 -2 -3)
  • try to avoid pagination comments
  • if you use infinite scroll:
    • don't use a footer
    • have a no-js fallback
  • h-feed needs a previous/next URL if it's paginated
  • closely tied in with /archive (wiki)

• why/when?
  • data size (lots of photos)

• why not/when not?
  • comments?
    • welp, depends on size

• are numbered pages any good?
  • reverse can be
  • normal order shifts content when new appears

• infiinite scroll is evil
• why?
  • prevents footer
  • needs JS

• pagination of a single entry is also evil

• calendar view
  • greyed out days with no content
  • per day archives for the rest

• UI ideas
  • scrollbar, showing dates - see Kartik's solution for static per year/per month pages
  • per date/per date range pagination
  • logarithmic navigation (first, XZ previous, X previous, Y next, YZ next, end)

• "API"
  • h-feed next/prev to link to another h-feed of items next/prev in the sequence

See Also

• 2018/Berlin/Sessions