{"id":279,"date":"2008-10-28T17:58:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T21:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2008-10-28T17:58:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T21:58:20","slug":"paginate-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2008-10-28\/paginate-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Paginate the Web?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web pages scroll, usually vertically. Is this a good thing?<\/p>\n<p>I was reading an article that Deb pointed out from <cite>The Atlantic<\/cite>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200807\/google\">&#8220;Is Google Making Us Stupid?&#8221;<\/a> and I noticed something: I could easily keep attention on the page when I wasn&#8217;t scrolling. But as soon as I got to the bottom of the page, it was much harder to stay focused.<\/p>\n<p>What if web browsers paginated articles by default, instead of laying them out in a vertical scroll view by default? Would that improve reader attention span, or just cause users to stop reading after the first page?<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to write a Firefox extension to render websites as paginated entities instead of scrolling entities? I suspect not, and that would require assistance from the core Gecko layout engine, but I think it would be a very interesting UI experiment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web pages scroll, usually vertically. Is this a good thing? I was reading an article that Deb pointed out from The Atlantic: &#8220;Is Google Making Us Stupid?&#8221; and I noticed something: I could easily keep attention on the page when I wasn&#8217;t scrolling. But as soon as I got to the bottom of the page, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","category-untagged","tag-pagination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}