On 3/31/2011 7:27 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
On Mar 31, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
I would like to try putting the comment box after the last (most
recent) comment, as that is the message one most ofter responds to.
Having to now scroll up and down between comment box and last
message(s) is often of a nuisance.
While that sounds logical, I think it will be a usability problem. If
someone doesn't see a the comment box immediately, they may not know to
scroll down past dozens of messages to find it.
Even though such is standard for the majority of web fora?
Rather that being trial-and-error amateur web page designers, it would
be better to follow proven models. All of the following have the comment
box at the top and the messages in reverse chronological order:
I really hate that since it means scrolling down before reading, and
because this is unusually, so by habit I start reading at the top.
* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393587
* http://digg.com/news/entertainment/top_12_game_shows_of_all_time
* https://twitter.com/
In my experience, reverse is maybe 20% of sites I have visited. Forward:
guido's blog, and I presume others at site; ars technica, stackoverflow,
slashdot, most or all php-based web fora, ....
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Terry Jan Reedy
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