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This is horrible. Why can't I scroll? Why do I have to use the sidebar to go through the sections? Why do I have to click the tiny arrow thing at the bottom to
by schrototo 15y ago
This is horrible. Why can't I scroll? Why do I have to use the sidebar to go through the sections? Why do I have to click the tiny arrow thing at the bottom to get to the next page?
- icebraining 15y agoAgreed. More: Back/Forward doesn't work; When you're in the first page of the first article of a section, the 'back' arrow sits there but doesn't do anything (if you've been browsing backwards, you might not know you're in the first article).
- tintin 15y agoAnd why is it slow as hell? It reminds me of the days when all sites where converted to Flash.
- wmeredith 15y agoAgreed. I love the layout and the UX, but it's just not fast enough.
- erikb 15y agoI don't know, maybe with a touchscreen you can move it without the buttons.
- shimonamit 15y agoUp/down arrow keys to scroll sections (vertical), left/right to scroll section pages (horizontal). I think it is brilliant.
- akie 15y agoNice! But it would be nice if they could please make it work with the swipe left/right on the macbook pro... that would be brilliant.
- mrandre 15y agoI haven't looked into this, but it's definitely a possibility, provided the events are sane.
- absentbird 15y agoI think it is handled the same as the horizontal scroll on normal mice. Here is a relevant stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2842041/jquery-horizontal-scroll-with-mousewheel http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2842041/jquery-horizontal...
- dw0rm 15y agoFrom the layout selection, choose the one called "Stack".
- RyanMcGreal 15y agoI hated it until I figured out you can use arrow keys. Now I love it.
- juliano_q 15y agoSame here. From horrible to fantastic. Really liked it.
- vidyesh 15y agoTry these shortcuts Arrow keys - As it is :) Spacebar - Scroll down J - Go down the sections K - Go up the sections F - Hide sidebar R - Refresh T - Top News Btw this is what the chrome webstore App is, why is everyone shocked!?? http://www.nytimes.com/chrome/ http://www.nytimes.com/chrome/
- rokhayakebe 15y agoUnrelated: I think every web application should use keyboard shortcuts. This is possibly my favorite gmail feature. I can pretty much do whatever I want (save Logout and Attach File) using my keyboard.
- BoppreH 15y agoCounter point: I configured my browser (Opera) to heavily use single-letter shortcuts, such as Q/E to navigate to next/prev tabs, W/S to scroll up and down, T to open new tabs, etc. This and mouse gestures were a great improvement in my browsing experience. Things get horribly broken with pages that have their own shortcuts too. For example, when I'm quickly pressing E (next tab) to see all my tabs and happen to find an open Gmail tab, it'll archive the message displayed, no questions asked. Thankfully Gmail allows the user to disable such shortcuts, and there's always the "undo" button, but I'm not willing to hunt this option in every single website I visit. I have the NYT page open right next to this one, and I get stuck whenever I come across it because none of my shortcuts work there. I think individual websites shouldn't be able to dictate what I can or cannot do with my browser. It should be a browser option to ignore such shortcuts, but while that doesn't happen, be mindful of users like me.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoI disagree, I think it is the browser's job to get out of the way as much as possible. That the browser provides you shortcuts shows that it thinks of itself as being more important than the websites it renders (Opera knows Web APIs and chose to implement a feature that butts heads with one because it's rarely used).
- mrandre 15y agoHi! Andre Behrens, creator of the app here. You can't scroll because I happen to think scrolling for reading is broken. Scrolling is a mechanism for micro-managing the position of content at a pixel level. As a creative producer, when I'm producing creative, I like this a lot. When I'm reading, I find it borderline exhausting; Scroll, re find position, think about when it's time to scroll again, do so, re find position. Did I scroll to far? So Skimmer uses pages whenever it can. You just activate "next", and there's more to read. "Next." "Next." "Next." This wouldn't work at all for editing a photo. But if you haven't tried it for reading longform content, you really ought to try it. Of course, if you really do like the classic web scrolling approach, you can just use nytimes.com, and neither I, nor anyone else at the Times would complain.
- Luyt 15y agoI scroll with ease through large wads of text using a simple gesture on the touchpad. I find it much more important that a long piece of text is broken up by scannable subheaders, than that it designed to avoid scrolling.
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- oinksoft 15y ago> You can't scroll because I happen to think scrolling for reading is broken. You can't be serious. This is one of the foremost expectations in the user experience, fortified by almost two decades of websites that have done it this way.
- spazmaster 15y agoScrolling is cool, and I advocate it all the time, but not for longform content.
- jeffreymcmanus 15y agoI wouldn't call news stories "long form content".
- jasonmcalacanis 15y agoisn't this a year old? is there something new to the skimmer?