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All this animated stuff makes the new site really annoying. Does anybody actually like this stuff? Or is it just the developers who want to show off how much Ja

All this animated stuff makes the new site really annoying. Does anybody actually like this stuff? Or is it just the developers who want to show off how much Javascript they know?

qb45 11y ago
I've seen similar websites done for my former high school and former employee. I think in both cases it was webmasters showing off and justifying their existence combined with website owners being impressed by their 1337-skillz and maybe having some complexes that they aren't modern enough. It also didn't help that owners weren't actually users of the website and that the design was probably demoed to them on developer's machine over localhost where it may have performed reasonably fast.
Kequc 11y ago
I don't mind the animations but I just can't stand it when websites mess with the scrolling. The page does not behave as I expect when I scroll using the trackpad on my macbook. I don't know how it behaves with a mouse scrollwheel but I assume it feels strange. There is no universal way to reliably mimic scrolling with javascript. There's too many different browsers and devices, all of them treat scrolling differently.
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developer2 11y ago
Also 72 (72!!!!) requests to load the page, including: 1.3 MB of javascript and css, 2 MB of images, 6 custom fonts, and most annoyingly the scrolling is completely messed up. Please, never ever do custom scrolling. It's an instant turn off. If this was a site selling me something, the scrolling would have lost a potential sale from me.
SyneRyder 11y ago
Oh my god. You're not kidding - this reminds me of the days of animated GIFs on Geocities pages. Aesthestics / readability aside, I worry that those animations will be painfully slow / battery draining on old slow machines with underpowered GPUs, and I would've thought that's the ReactOS target market. The folks stuck on Windows XP boxes who can't upgrade to Windows 10, and for whom a lightweight XP/2000 compatible OS that still gets security updates would be ideal.

All this animated stuff makes the new site really annoying. Does anybody actually like this stuff? Or is it just the developers who want to show off how much Javascript they know?

qb45 11y ago

I've seen similar websites done for my former high school and former employee. I think in both cases it was webmasters showing off and justifying their existence combined with website owners being impressed by their 1337-skillz and maybe having some complexes that they aren't modern enough. It also didn't help that owners weren't actually users of the website and that the design was probably demoed to them on developer's machine over localhost where it may have performed reasonably fast.

Kequc 11y ago

I don't mind the animations but I just can't stand it when websites mess with the scrolling. The page does not behave as I expect when I scroll using the trackpad on my macbook. I don't know how it behaves with a mouse scrollwheel but I assume it feels strange. There is no universal way to reliably mimic scrolling with javascript. There's too many different browsers and devices, all of them treat scrolling differently.

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developer2 11y ago

Also 72 (72!!!!) requests to load the page, including: 1.3 MB of javascript and css, 2 MB of images, 6 custom fonts, and most annoyingly the scrolling is completely messed up. Please, never ever do custom scrolling. It's an instant turn off. If this was a site selling me something, the scrolling would have lost a potential sale from me.

SyneRyder 11y ago

Oh my god. You're not kidding - this reminds me of the days of animated GIFs on Geocities pages. Aesthestics / readability aside, I worry that those animations will be painfully slow / battery draining on old slow machines with underpowered GPUs, and I would've thought that's the ReactOS target market. The folks stuck on Windows XP boxes who can't upgrade to Windows 10, and for whom a lightweight XP/2000 compatible OS that still gets security updates would be ideal.