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Subject:Re: Re[2]: list dedicated to Web Site Editing From:"Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:21:39 -0700
At 09:06 AM 11/6/97 -0600, Walker, Arlen P wrote:
>Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating pages that go on forever; I
>wouldn't like to read "War and Peace" on a single web page. But why is
>having to scroll once worse than having to load a whole new page?
It's not, according to the Usability Interface Engineering
book on Web site usability. http://www.uie.com for details and a
sample chapter. They found no effect either way for scrolling.
Eric
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