On 3/31/2011 7:27 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > >> I would like to try putting the comment box after the last (most >> recent) comment, as that is the message one most ofter responds to. >> Having to now scroll up and down between comment box and last >> message(s) is often of a nuisance. > > While that sounds logical, I think it will be a usability problem. If > someone doesn't see a the comment box immediately, they may not know to > scroll down past dozens of messages to find it. Even though such is standard for the majority of web fora? > Rather that being trial-and-error amateur web page designers, it would > be better to follow proven models. All of the following have the comment > box at the top and the messages in reverse chronological order: I really hate that since it means scrolling down before reading, and because this is unusually, so by habit I start reading at the top. > > * http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393587 > * http://digg.com/news/entertainment/top_12_game_shows_of_all_time > * https://twitter.com/ In my experience, reverse is maybe 20% of sites I have visited. Forward: guido's blog, and I presume others at site; ars technica, stackoverflow, slashdot, most or all php-based web fora, .... -- Terry Jan Reedy
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