Meanings
- uncountablecomputingA web design technique that loads more content as the user scrolls towards the end of the loaded content. This prevents the browser scroll bar from scrolling to the bottom of the page, causing the page to grow with additional content instead, until there are no more results to be displayed.
The demands of the infinite scroll, in short, can no longer be fulfilled by humans alone.
2025 April 19, Jacob Silverman, “Welcome to Slop World”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 162 more examples
The prime example of this is the so-called infinite scroll pattern. The idea is simple: rather than distribute results across a series of pages, all results are loaded into a single page.
2009, Robert Hoekman, Jared Spool, Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks That Work, page 96You want to create an “infinite scroll” interaction that appends new results as the user scrolls down the page.
2012, Evan Goer, Yui 3 Cookbook, page 80Synonyms: infinite scrolling, continuous scroll, continuous scrolling
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA web design technique that loads more content as the user scrolls towards the end of the loaded content. This prevents the browser scroll bar from scrolling to the bottom of the page, causing the page to grow with additional content instead, until there are no more results to be displayed.
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