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I realize that as a staunch Linux user I'm not in their target demographic, but... wow that website is slightly motion sickness inducing. Is it as bad to scroll

I realize that as a staunch Linux user I'm not in their target demographic, but... wow that website is slightly motion sickness inducing. Is it as bad to scroll through this on a mac as it is on linux? I use a mouse with an actual wheel, maybe they don't optimize for that kind of legacy device...? Edit: it's also just so hard to scroll exactly to the points where the information is presented. I just mostly end up at points that are meaningless transitions... So confusing...

dmitriid 5y ago
> Is it as bad to scroll through this on a mac as it is on linux It is. Despite their investment in desktop hardware (finally!) they completely forgot how to do desktop software. Ten years ago all those animations where buttery smooth even if they were a weird custom "video" code that assembled them out of separate PNGs.
- izolate 5y ago
  FYI the Studio Display website was outsourced to an agency, and not developed in-house by Apple engineers. Outsourcing rarely improves the quality of software.
  - dmitriid 5y ago
    This is even worse
DougMellon 5y ago
I am on a Mac (M1 Air) and it's not the greatest experience.
rchaud 5y ago
It's laggy on Firefox in in a 2014 MBP as well. I won't blame Apple, this is just the state of web animation with CSS3 and Lottie. Weird to think that Flash handled this kind of animation seamlessly on browsers 15 years ago.
- black_puppydog 5y ago
  I don't think (for me) the issue is how smooth the scrolling is. It's the fact that these animations are there at all. Like... who wants to see these? They add nothing and add huge visual confusion...
- dagmx 5y ago
  Flash then wasn't dealing with as high resolution content though
  - rchaud 5y ago
    We barely had dual-core processors back then. It's fair to assume that Flash's capabilities would have improved with hardware advances.
fomine3 5y ago
Even if it worked perfectly, it's bad design.
wwalexander 5y ago
I feel like everyone immediately realized what a terrible UX scrolljacking provides when the trend started, but Apple has pressed on despite their (in my opinion) otherwise thoughtful UX design.
jimbob45 5y ago
If you middle-click and scroll down smoothly, it's a better experience (provided you nail the right speed). However, there's a bunch of text you miss doing it that way.
ifaxmycodetok8s 5y ago
only seems to look or work "good" when you just scroll by holding down the arrow keys
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Toutouxc 5y ago
Mac pointing devices have step-less and inertial scrolling, so the scrolling itself is effortless, but the framerate of the "video" is too low, so it's either not fluid enough unless you scroll like crazy.

dmitriid 5y ago

> Is it as bad to scroll through this on a mac as it is on linux It is. Despite their investment in desktop hardware (finally!) they completely forgot how to do desktop software. Ten years ago all those animations where buttery smooth even if they were a weird custom "video" code that assembled them out of separate PNGs.

izolate 5y ago
FYI the Studio Display website was outsourced to an agency, and not developed in-house by Apple engineers. Outsourcing rarely improves the quality of software.
- dmitriid 5y ago
  This is even worse

DougMellon 5y ago

I am on a Mac (M1 Air) and it's not the greatest experience.

rchaud 5y ago

It's laggy on Firefox in in a 2014 MBP as well. I won't blame Apple, this is just the state of web animation with CSS3 and Lottie. Weird to think that Flash handled this kind of animation seamlessly on browsers 15 years ago.

black_puppydog 5y ago
I don't think (for me) the issue is how smooth the scrolling is. It's the fact that these animations are there at all. Like... who wants to see these? They add nothing and add huge visual confusion...
dagmx 5y ago
Flash then wasn't dealing with as high resolution content though
- rchaud 5y ago
  We barely had dual-core processors back then. It's fair to assume that Flash's capabilities would have improved with hardware advances.

fomine3 5y ago

Even if it worked perfectly, it's bad design.

wwalexander 5y ago

I feel like everyone immediately realized what a terrible UX scrolljacking provides when the trend started, but Apple has pressed on despite their (in my opinion) otherwise thoughtful UX design.

jimbob45 5y ago

If you middle-click and scroll down smoothly, it's a better experience (provided you nail the right speed). However, there's a bunch of text you miss doing it that way.

ifaxmycodetok8s 5y ago

only seems to look or work "good" when you just scroll by holding down the arrow keys

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Toutouxc 5y ago

Mac pointing devices have step-less and inertial scrolling, so the scrolling itself is effortless, but the framerate of the "video" is too low, so it's either not fluid enough unless you scroll like crazy.