AutoPager just loads the next page automatically when you scroll near the bottom of the page. It's really useful for things like search results, news articles, or forum threads. The user has to tell it how to find the link to the next page, though, which is hard to do if there's no "next page" link.
Another possible use would be adding a keyboard shortcut to go to the previous or next page, which could be accomplished with a Greasemonkey script or something like that.
Edit: Now that I think about it, adding those links would also make the forum more accessible to people using things like screenreader software.
edited 15th May '11 12:34:47 PM by Enthryn
Adding next/prev, as well as up (to the thread index, I guess?) links via rel="[next|prev|up]" sounds like a good idea that also improves accesibility, and such links would be automatically recognized by browsers and software that helps navigate across pages, such as the Firefox extension above, Opera's Navigation Bar (which unfortunately doesn't have keyboard shortcuts, but there's a script that fixes that) and even some text mode broesers such as elinks, which extends to the screen reasder accesibility.
edited 15th May '11 5:17:54 PM by SilentReverence
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This should be a pretty minor thing to add. I'd just like links (preferably both with an "id" attribute) that go to the previous page and the next page on forum threads and topic lists on the forum.
Right now, it's tricky to select the relevant link with a script (such as Firefox's AutoPager
), since the links are just page numbers. It'd be nice to have forum threads be a bit more script-accessible.