Pageless Pagination: Cease and Desist
http://blog.reindel.com/2007/10/25/pageless-pagination-cease-and-desist/

Reindel, Brian
d'bug
2008

Abstract:

Pageless pagination is a substitute for the paging functionality that appears on the majority of Web sites today. A typical paging mechanism is on a search results page, and it uses numbers to represent additional pages of results. For most users this has long been the acceptable browsing standard for everyday surfing, searching and shopping, and it requires little effort to recognize or learn a paging component. In a quest to improve upon outdated methods, someone decided to overhaul this standard. With pageless pagination, when the user scrolls down the page to bring more results into view, the Web site detects that the event is happening. After the scrollbar reaches a threshold, a script grabs more results and dynamically appends them to the bottom of the results already in view.