Imagine you are writing a reusable UI component for a scrollable list.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

Imagine you are writing a reusable UI component for a scrollable list. You want your list to have a property such, if true, the list follows the rule "if the user is already scrolled to the bottom of the list, and a new item is added to the bottom, autoscroll to the new bottom".

What would you name this property?

[romromrom@piaille.fr]

@mcc something like pinAtLastItem

[eramdam@social.erambert.me]

@mcc stickTo[side]

[dcbaok@fosstodon.org]

@mcc reaching a new low

[elomatreb@chaos.social]

@mcc "sticky" 🤔

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@mcc Best I can manage on short notice is "scroll on extend"

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@mcc `follow_bottom` (or perhaps `follow_edge` if it also applies to the top)

[elso@chaos.social]

@mcc follow or tail

[val@oc.todon.fr]

@mcc if it's meant for something intrinsically time-based (like a log): "follow" or "follow updates".
Otherwise, I don't know.

[thezosia@mastodon.com.pl]

@mcc DigDeeper

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@SnoopJ @mcc I like that "follow" has the same semantics as it does in the context of tail and the like.

[shaadra@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mcc stay_at_bottom

[sleet01@fosstodon.org]

@theZosia @mcc "DelveDeeper", surely? :)

[kboyd@phpc.social]

@elomatreb @mcc gotta be "stickyBottom"

[dougwade@mastodon.xyz]

@elso @mcc I also like tail, by analogy to tailing logs using the Linux tail command.

[quaff@thecanadian.social]

@mcc it's sort of like "follow stream" or "streaming scroll" or something along those lines.

[sistawendy@toot.cat]

@mcc Is it just the bottom? I want to call it scrollToInsertion.

[bigshellevent@toot.cat]

@mcc Pit of Abyss

[phairupegiont@mastodon.social]

@mcc in DebugView the menu option for this is called "Auto Scroll"

[holdenweb@freeradical.zone]

@phairupegiont @mcc If it’s an accepted term, no point re-inventing.