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While they should definitely consider serving up a more static version for mobile (couldn't scroll on Firefox Android), the experience of reading this article o
by ObsoleteNerd 8y ago
While they should definitely consider serving up a more static version for mobile (couldn't scroll on Firefox Android), the experience of reading this article on my desktop was truly awesome.
I absolutely loved the graphics, cinemagraphs, and entire experience, and really do think it added immensely to the story itself.
Is there a name for this style of article? Do they use some existing JS library or is it all hand crafted?
- alexbecker 8y agoScrolling even on desktop was janky for me, and it was hard to center the paragraphs that were supposed to overlay the maps.
- ObsoleteNerd 8y agoGoes to show just how broken the web is lately. I quit web dev after 20 years in the industry because it was frustrating me so much. I pretty much exclusively deal with hardware now and love that if I solder everything right, and put everything where it's supposed to, it works, and anything wrong with it is usually my fault or a broken component. Worked perfectly on Firefox Developer Edition / Windows 10. Was smooth and I didn't notice a single issue, FWIW.
- nickevershed 8y agoWe call them "big scrollies" in my newsroom, I have also seen the format referred to as "Scrollytelling". There are a few libraries such as graph-scroll and scrolllama which work well with d3 specifically, but otherwise you can just make your own.