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This horizontal scrolling thing is a real bomb.

by jawns 14y ago

quarterto 14y ago
Bomb as in "it's da bomb", or as in "it bombed"?
- splicer 14y ago
  Or as in "bombe"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe
mysterywhiteboy 14y ago
I'm a big fan of horizontal scrolling as it is the only scrolling my Apple Mighty Mouse will do these days!
quacker 14y ago
Isn't it? I was briefly using all of the space on my widescreen display while browsing. Certainly an improvement over vertically-scrolled websites where margins are often just blank space. It looks like you still get vertical scrolling on mobile.
- tjoff 14y ago
  Why oh why do you browse with your browser maximized? I could have viewed this page maximized and just about read the whole thing without scrolling at all, but how would that be preferable? You might fit more text on the screen but you don't read the whole thing in parallel, you slowly read paragraph after paragraph and what you gain in not having to scroll you loose in having to move your eyes and head instead, running maximized you just waste screen real estate. I would have expected for this implementation to break down with different browser sizes but it reflowed well and seems to be well thought out. But I'm very skeptical towards such a radical change unless there is a real benefit to it. The benefit in this case is that you get reasonably sized columns (that are easy to read), which is kind of hard to achieve with vertical scrolling (I haven't seen a single implementation that works nearly as well as this one). So I applaud their efforts, but there should be a manual fallback (couldn't find one), because I'm confident that it doesn't work as intended everywhere.
  - jaems33 14y ago
    "Why oh why do you browse with your browser maximized?" Because white space is great.
- polyfractal 14y ago
  Meh, I found it difficult to read. I wanted to skim past the images and intro fluff...but had a hard time finding the real content to read.
- DanBC 14y ago
  There's a problem with people who need bigger fonts - on chrome on a macbook the text falls off the bottom of the screen and there's no way to read it. And frustratingly there's a bunch of space up top (Apple menu bar; chrome's weirdly large titlebar; chrome address bar and bookmark bar; then there's a white stripe; and then there's the Globe and mail banner. At the bottom of the screen there's another grey bar (Our audience is our only agenda). Using Chrome's frustrating ctrl+ feature ("zoom everything", instead of "enlarge text") means that the user interface stuff takes up even more space, and there's less space for text. People may know me as being vehemently against this type of website - "just give me the text with nice css" - but I actually really liked the experience, even with these problems. (I also liked the photo essays.)
  - pygy_ 14y ago
    You can get more vertical space by going fullscreen (I had to on my netbook, after zooming out a bit).
fdej 14y ago
It's so bombular that it doesn't even work on the outdated version of Chromium I'm running at work.
3pt14159 14y ago
For people with poor vision like myself it breaks even further. I can't ^+ to make it larger without moving words off the screen and I can't use my readability JS script because their HTML is borked. :(
mkaltenecker 14y ago
I think they only tested it with Macs (where it is a joy to use). That’s just plain stupid.
marze 14y ago
On a retina iPad it was the nicest horizontal scroll page I've seen. I'd be perfectly happy to read any text like this.

This horizontal scrolling thing is a real bomb.

by jawns 14y ago

This horizontal scrolling thing is a real bomb.

quarterto 14y ago

Bomb as in "it's da bomb", or as in "it bombed"?

splicer 14y ago
Or as in "bombe"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe

mysterywhiteboy 14y ago

I'm a big fan of horizontal scrolling as it is the only scrolling my Apple Mighty Mouse will do these days!

quacker 14y ago

Isn't it? I was briefly using all of the space on my widescreen display while browsing. Certainly an improvement over vertically-scrolled websites where margins are often just blank space. It looks like you still get vertical scrolling on mobile.

tjoff 14y ago
Why oh why do you browse with your browser maximized? I could have viewed this page maximized and just about read the whole thing without scrolling at all, but how would that be preferable? You might fit more text on the screen but you don't read the whole thing in parallel, you slowly read paragraph after paragraph and what you gain in not having to scroll you loose in having to move your eyes and head instead, running maximized you just waste screen real estate. I would have expected for this implementation to break down with different browser sizes but it reflowed well and seems to be well thought out. But I'm very skeptical towards such a radical change unless there is a real benefit to it. The benefit in this case is that you get reasonably sized columns (that are easy to read), which is kind of hard to achieve with vertical scrolling (I haven't seen a single implementation that works nearly as well as this one). So I applaud their efforts, but there should be a manual fallback (couldn't find one), because I'm confident that it doesn't work as intended everywhere.
- jaems33 14y ago
  "Why oh why do you browse with your browser maximized?" Because white space is great.
polyfractal 14y ago
Meh, I found it difficult to read. I wanted to skim past the images and intro fluff...but had a hard time finding the real content to read.
DanBC 14y ago
There's a problem with people who need bigger fonts - on chrome on a macbook the text falls off the bottom of the screen and there's no way to read it. And frustratingly there's a bunch of space up top (Apple menu bar; chrome's weirdly large titlebar; chrome address bar and bookmark bar; then there's a white stripe; and then there's the Globe and mail banner. At the bottom of the screen there's another grey bar (Our audience is our only agenda). Using Chrome's frustrating ctrl+ feature ("zoom everything", instead of "enlarge text") means that the user interface stuff takes up even more space, and there's less space for text. People may know me as being vehemently against this type of website - "just give me the text with nice css" - but I actually really liked the experience, even with these problems. (I also liked the photo essays.)
- pygy_ 14y ago
  You can get more vertical space by going fullscreen (I had to on my netbook, after zooming out a bit).

fdej 14y ago

It's so bombular that it doesn't even work on the outdated version of Chromium I'm running at work.

3pt14159 14y ago

For people with poor vision like myself it breaks even further. I can't ^+ to make it larger without moving words off the screen and I can't use my readability JS script because their HTML is borked. :(

mkaltenecker 14y ago

I think they only tested it with Macs (where it is a joy to use). That’s just plain stupid.

marze 14y ago

On a retina iPad it was the nicest horizontal scroll page I've seen. I'd be perfectly happy to read any text like this.