The interesting thing with any form of research is that you can argue against it. For example if you look at scroll length you can find sites that say long is OK and yet they say it in under 2 screens ;-) Personally LaTeX one screen pages with endless next/up/down/home/yada buttons annoy me too.

So what do I like? I do like pages 200 screens long (probably for the same reasons as you do) provided they have 2 things. An index at the top, and a [Top] button to get back to that index. That's about it. Just the usual. Gimmee what I want now. And don't make me scroll for it. Whadayareckon?

What I don't like is hitting a 100 screen page that you have to use Find on to find whatever bit of text you entered in the search engine.....

In reply to Re^5: Too much NON-front-paging! by tachyon
in thread Too much Front Paging by tachyon

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