[PATCH 14 of 20] hgweb: add ajaxScrollInit skeleton

[Dave S]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Alexander Plavin <alexander at plav.in> wrote:

>
>
> 13.08.2013, 23:56, "Dave S" <snidely.too at gmail.com>:
> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Alexander Plavin <alexander at plav.in>
> wrote:
> >> 13.08.2013, 21:56, "Dave S" <snidely.too at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> > Yes, "how much"; I apologize for the proof-reading goof. I couldn't
> tell if it was
> >> > growing by 6 or 60 entries, and having a visual clue would have been
> nice.
> >> > I was also looking for Opera page-info to tell me, and it didn't ...
> >> > at least not in a way I could recognize;
> >> > I think the numbers it displayed reflected the initial load,
> >> > and didn't change when I scolled down and triggered some more.
> >>
> >> As for visual clue, I'm sorry: the deployment to the server wasn't
> complete (now it is).
> >> So, look again - there is a tiny horizontal line between 'pages'.
> >
> > I don't see any dynamic loading this time ... at <
> http://hg.plav.in/hg/shortlog/tip>
> > Did I go to the wrong place?
>
> I see dynamic loading at this URL with both chromium, opera, firefox
> (iceweasel). Try refreshing with Ctrl+F5.
>
>
I must have accidentally tweaked a setting, still no joy with Opera, but
looks good with FF.  The line is nice.


> >
> >> And I don't get what you say about Opera page-info and what you want to
> see there.
> >
> > It's just a tool, like an odometer is a tool for measuring how far I
> drive.
>
> Are you talking about the side-bar 'info' tab? I couldn't find anything
> else which is called 'page info' in opera. If so, it shouldn't show any
> changes.
>
>
Page->Developer Tools->Page Info.
It shows a byte count, but it maybe doesn't update it for dynamic content.


> >
> >> > Also, I am not certain I prefer "grows by 60" to "moves the visible
> buffer by 60"
> >> > (Android, and I guess MySQL, call this a "cursor");
> >> > in the latter case, the top of the window would be showing a
> different line after
> >> > each dynamic load (and maybe with a cursor, you want to move 60/2,
> >> > also have to add dynamic up-scrolling).
> >
> >> I haven't seen any website using such technique, so it seems to be very
> unintuitive
> >> and unexpected behavior.
> >
> > No web site uses a "sliding window"? (to use another name for this sort
> of technique)
> >
> > I'm not sure I have an example to show you; Google search still uses
> fixed length pages.
> > Google Image search appends at the bottom without sliding the top, so
> that's one example
> > that uses the "stretchy window" model of your sample.
>
> Google search doesn't this kind of infinite scrolling, there is just a
> page switch. Almst the same behavior is when you just click on the
> forward/backward links in hg log (I mean +-N). The links not always work as
> expected for edited history and stripped csets (yet), but otherwise they
> seem ok if you want this. Google images use some kind of infinite scrolling
> on the other hand, and it's quite similar in behavior to mine one (not
> exactly).
>
>
Yes.


> >
> > [...]
> >> > > Revision number near the less-more links always relate to the
> beginning of the list,
> >> > > same as it was before.
> >>
> >> > Yes, but in the past there was always a fixed relationship between
> the top and bottom numbers,
> >> > and even my grey cells could compute that, but they start thrashing
> when trying to figure out
> >> > where I am with infinite scrolling.
> >
> >> As for me, changing the revision number on top or bottom (or both) will
> confuse users
> >> and has little sense.
> >
> > Perhaps, but as you can tell from my whining, some of us will get
> confused from not providing
> > additional clues.
>
> What would you suggest here? I'm almost certain that changing the numbers
> will confuse (much?) more.
>
>
Perhaps you could put something in the margin for the entry after the
horizontal line, or maybe just a tooltip when you hover over an entry.

I am, by the way, impressed by the work you've been doing on hgweb ... the
amount and quality are both inspiring.  To use an old sports phrase, you're
red hot and rolling!

/dps


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