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Focus is why apps are better.
You have less real-estate so you have to focus on delivering what matters.
Commented Apr 24, 2012 on Will Apps Kill Websites? at Coding Horror
Will Apps Kill Websites?
I've been an eBay user since 1999, and I still frequent eBay as both buyer and seller. In that time, eBay has transformed from a place where geeks sell broken laser pointers to each other, into a global marketplace where businesses sell anything and everything to customers. If you're looking fo...
I actually use pagination some times to click on a page and then "Ctrl-F" and search within that page. aka search within search.
I have even done this with google at times. Often times its for strange meta-data that is not clear how you would get the search engine to bring it up.
Ctrl-F does not work with infinite scrolling however I'm kind of a weird user.
Commented Mar 28, 2012 on The End of Pagination at Coding Horror
The End of Pagination
What do you do when you have a lot of things to display to the user, far more than can possibly fit on the screen? Paginate, naturally. There are plenty of other real world examples in this 2007 article, but I wouldn't bother. If you've seen one pagination scheme, you've seen them all. The...
This blog post kind of sounds like self help :)
Commented Jul 27, 2011 on Nobody's Going to Help You, and That's Awesome at Coding Horror
Nobody's Going to Help You, and That's Awesome
I'm not into self-help. I don't buy self-help books, I don't read productivity blogs, and I certainly don't subscribe to self-proclaimed self-help guru newsletters. Reading someone else's advice on the rather generic concept of helping yourself always struck me as a particularly misguided idea....
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