INFINITE SCROLL VS PAGINATION Olarewaju M. Oluwadoyin University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara State. PMB 1515 Abstract __ navigating through large sets of data can be very difficult. It requires the user to scroll or move through the data on the page. When there are thousands of such data it can get boring or the information one requires can become difficult to find. Segmenting large data sets solves this problem, and two methods through which this is done is pagination and infinite scrolling. In this paper we explore both methods, contrast their strengths and weaknesses and finally draw conclusions. __________________________________________ 1. Introduction Pre-dating the 1500’s, documents that where produced didn’t have page numbers. Page numbering only became common practice around the 1550’s, when it replaced foliation, which numbered only the front sides of folios. When handling large sets of data it can be a daunting and confusing task viewing the data all at once in just one place. Imagine a google search that yields thousands of results, imagine having to go through that much information on just one web page, imagine the amount of time it would take to fetch the results. Imagine a book with all pages and chapters on just one long page. Sorting through all that information on just one webpage is a difficult and boring task. The history of segmentation of content can be traced back to page numbering used in print documents. Page numbering is the procedure of applying a grouping of numbers (or letters, or roman numerals) to the pages of a book or other archive. The number itself which might show up in different spots on the page, can be alluded to as a page number or as a folio. Today, all content, regardless of which output medium is arranged, anticipated, or not anticipated, can be delivered with innovations that permit downstream changes into any presentation craved, albeit such best-practice readiness is still a long way from being all inclusive. Separation techniques usually includes a markup language, (for example, XML, HTML, or SGML) that labels the substance semantically and machine-meaningfully, which permits downstream advancements to yield them into whatever presentation is required. This idea is known as the partition of presentation and content. This paradigm is currently the customary one in most commercial publishing, but to the degree that legacy and backward compatibility issues and spending plan meddle, and to the degree that a large portion of the general population included don't comprehend sufficiently to help build compliance. Be that as it may, it is no more conceivable to make various leveled qualification between pagination in the print medium and pagination in the electronic medium, since print is only a case of presentation of the same basic substance. Ebooks and other electronic archives distributed in a non-reflowable organization, for example, PDF are ordinarily paginated and numbered similarly as their printed partners. While perusing gadgets for reflowable reports, for example, EPUB ebooks might show page numbers, these numbers change from gadget to gadget contingent upon elements, for example, the extent of the showcase and the chose text dimension. This makes them unacceptable for reference purposes. To cure this issue, Amazon Kindle ebooks contain what are called "area numbers", that is, numbers in the edge of the electronic content that show where the relating page starts in the printed variant of the book. On the Internet, paging is utilized for such things as displaying a predetermined amount of results on web search tool results pages, or demonstrating a set number of posts while seeing a gathering string.