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Tried scrolling article up and down. Animated images hijacking the mouse control randomly, showing some motion then freezing. A good illustration.

• stefan_ 7y ago
  This is the latest innovation in "interactive story telling". It is just the ultimate in irony: here is an article crying murder because a touch interface allowed a sailor to un-gang engine power, then slide a big fat green power slider for one engine to half of what the other big green slider for the other engine directly next to it showed. Meanwhile here we are furiously scrolling to hit invisible "scrolled distance" breakpoints to advance a slideshow.
  • ceejayoz 7y ago
    It's even worse if you're used to using spacebar to page-down.
    • aidenn0 7y ago
      Meh, I use spacebar to page-down, but am ready to fall-back at a moments notice because so many sites draw their header over the body, so a spacebar will end up by scrolling by more than a page...
  • thatswrong0 7y ago
    The websites that pull this off "well" do so by giving you feedback that your scrolling is still doing _something_. For example, Apple pulls this off reasonably in their marketing pages by moving things in the background: https://www.apple.com/iphone-11-pro/ https://www.apple.com/iphone-11-pro/ This one just sticks and does nothing, which is exceptionally awkward and feels broken.
• mkl 7y ago
  It's even worse on mobile, locking the page up entirely with Javascript. I assumed it was untested and broken there, and shifted to desktop, but it's broken here too.