Oldupai
19-10-2005, 18:17
When browsing hundreds of pages of data (such as the list of all nations or all regions), its very difficult to get to arbitrary points in the middle of the list. You get a list of numbers like "1 2 ... 499 500 501 ... 999 1000". To go through the list using only this interface, would take all day.
A very small change that would speed this up immensely would be to make each ellipsis ("...") a link to page halfway between. In the above example, the first ellipsis would be a link to page 250, and the second would be to 750. This simple change would let people binary search through the pages far faster than they could by advancing one page at a time.
A very small change that would speed this up immensely would be to make each ellipsis ("...") a link to page halfway between. In the above example, the first ellipsis would be a link to page 250, and the second would be to 750. This simple change would let people binary search through the pages far faster than they could by advancing one page at a time.