Windows Live – some good things…
In addition to my previous post I did find something nice on the Windows Live site – the search. Ok, the scrolling should be smooth in order for it to be usable, but I really liked the idea how you got rid of search result paging. What happens when you start scrolling down (with that awful slider) is that the site goes out and uses AJAX to read in more results. So you can scroll till you drop, and never need to click a next-page button ever again.
And oh, the image search result page is a beauty! Nicely done, now make it faster!






Paging is dead, long live scroll
Still paging is better UX experience for me, especially on my 512kb shared connection with 20 more people, thus I agree scrolling should be more smoother.
Anyway, good showcase for using AJAX.
I was interesting to try Live! search functionality, gives food to my mind.