If you're going to do it (and there's a case to be made for page-flipping mode, I made it on HN earlier today), do so loudly, clearly, and with a fallback mode.
Yes, book-style pages are useful. However they're not the convention for HTML navigation.
And users may visit with any of multiple mixes of devices, controls, and/or viewports.
I'm on a mobile device that looks a lot like a desktop in landscape mode but has a keyboard but no mouse or trackpad or trackpoint, nor does it have pageup/pagedown keys.
And it can rapidly convert to a portrait-mode display.
My first impression was that Firefox/Android had frozen its ass as it's wont to do. It took some futzing to realise this was intentional behavior of the site in question.
If you're going to do it (and there's a case to be made for page-flipping mode, I made it on HN earlier today), do so loudly, clearly, and with a fallback mode.
Yes, book-style pages are useful. However they're not the convention for HTML navigation.
And users may visit with any of multiple mixes of devices, controls, and/or viewports.
I'm on a mobile device that looks a lot like a desktop in landscape mode but has a keyboard but no mouse or trackpad or trackpoint, nor does it have pageup/pagedown keys.
And it can rapidly convert to a portrait-mode display.
My first impression was that Firefox/Android had frozen its ass as it's wont to do. It took some futzing to realise this was intentional behavior of the site in question.