Thursday, July 30, 2009

AutoPager

So, I was on Mozilla's website last night, and I noticed Firefox had a new plug-in called AutoPager, that supposedly loaded the next sequential web pages immediately below whatever was currently on your screen. Sounds complicated, I know, but think about it this way: If you were on a message board, and a discussion went on for several pages, what AutoPager does is loads those websites below one another, so all you have to do is scroll down, without clicking around trying to find the next page. I was on Google Images looking for some pictures to put into my restaurant website for my web design class, and I could simply scroll down and see all these images at once, without having to click left and right trying to find the right one. This is a great plug-in, and I can imagine that it will become a standard in web browsing in a few months.
So far, the only problems I've encountered have been AutoPager getting confused and continually loading the same page over and over again below it, but usually this occurs in less trafficked sites.
This might seem very banal, but I think it has saved me a great deal of time clicking the "next" button on various websites. Definitely worth trying.