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    I'd recommend editing your question to make it less focused on one's opinion of this UI pattern and more focused on the research/best practices in this arena. Commented Sep 29, 2011 at 4:26
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    @DanielNewman: I hope no one is offended by my phrasing, and I am open to more specific suggestions on how to make the question more about best practices. However, my intention was just to give a more personal and less technical description simply for approachability. Commented Sep 29, 2011 at 5:16
  • clmnt.com has a nice solution to the footer problem. Commented Oct 1, 2011 at 3:53
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    The problem here is the incomparable design elements of the "footer" and an unending page. There's absolutely no problem with having an unending page as many websites have data that fits this presentation method, the problem is people are tacking footers to pages with no foot. Commented Oct 1, 2011 at 14:54
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    Speaking as a UI dev and a user it's neither "neat" nor particularly challenging or fun to implement. It's obnoxious. Especially if you scroll with the scrollbar slider and it keeps jumping around because of the scale shift. Blech. Don't screw with established controls. Very long fixed height pages that load data in a cellular fashion as you scroll with "view more" controls at the bottom would be a much more ideal compromise. Commented Jun 5, 2014 at 13:35