[thelist] how is this done...content doesnt load until it comes into view

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 09:58:19 CST 2007


Loading as needed. It is an Ajax pattern.
http://unspace.ca/discover/pageless/


On 2/8/07, Ivo <evolt-thelist at sinchi.org> wrote:
> Hello listers,
>
> There is a behavior that I want to reproduce and I'd like to know how it
> is done. I only recall seeing it on Yahoo properties, in the Yahoo Mail
> Beta and on the new Yahoo TV. Both the message listings on Mail and on the
> TV listings are displayed in a view wth a scrollbar but the messages/tv
> listings are only loaded as they come into view as you scroll. So if I
> jump the scrollbar 50% down the skipped messages are not laoded, only
> those within the view section that I landed on.
>
> How is this accomplished? Has anyone worked on something like this before?
>
> http://tv.yahoo.com/listings
>
> Thank you for any pointers or advice,
>
> Ivo
>
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