20250221-1142. I just finished tweaking the Pagination block to perfection, in my opinion. The “default” already had “Previous Page” and “Next Page”, both of which are “grayed-out”, meaning the user could customize these two links!
There was NO style selection for either Arrow or Chevron and I typed double Chevron characters for both links. But when I “tested” the Pagination from my mobile device, the view was NOT perfect!
I expected all three elements Previous Page, Page Numbers and Next Page to line-up perfectly and stay in one Row without wrapping around to the next line!
So I tried combinations of removing the word “Page “and keeping the double Chevron characters, keeping and then removing the Chevron characters, removing the words but keeping the double Chevron characters (which worked nicely), and then settling from Previous to Back and then Older, and from Next to Newer. Voila!
Now my Pagination block is perfect. I feel the words “Older” and “Newer” are much clearer for blogs, because I do get confused as to what it means for Previous or Next.
Does Next page mean Newer reading material as in turning to the Next page of a romance novel, for example? Does Previous page mean the first page of a user manual where there is a Table of Content?
The answer is NO! This is because blogs are displayed in reverse chronological order, meaning the most recent or newest post entry could be displayed by clicking on the “Previous page”; while clicking the “Next page” displays the oldest entries!
Plus, I had to consider “readability’ features for those who do NOT understand what is an Arrow or Character symbol and for those with eyeball problems; whereas the words spelled out as Older and Newer is easily understood.
That’s all! End of status report 1204 PST. Edited 1207 PST.
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