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It's clever, but honestly I don't care how smooth it is. Scrolling should simply scroll a view up or down a page. Not invoke animation. We already have establis

It's clever, but honestly I don't care how smooth it is. Scrolling should simply scroll a view up or down a page. Not invoke animation. We already have established UX patterns for playing media, slowing it down, speeding it up, randomly seeking through it.

mcluck 2y ago
False. Let the web be fun again
robertlagrant 2y ago
Animation isn't really "playing media".
jacobgkau 2y ago
Part of the smoothness here is that scrolling the text is 1:1 once you get down to the sections with colored headers. It demonstrates that it's possible to make a page look fancy like that without "breaking" your intuition of what scrolling "should be." JS animations obviously don't take the place of video/audio media that you'd play/scrub through.
- JulianGarnier 2y ago
  Hey I'm the author of the lib, exactly, I don't really "highjack" the body scroll, I'm only controlling the background animations with it, while keeping most of the body content scroll naturally with the page.
jonwinstanley 2y ago
So what would you suggest to use to move the animation forward?
- hoc 2y ago
  That missing Playdate phone accessory.
- evilduck 2y ago
  Submitting a form repeatedly by hammering enter and having a new HTML fragment rendered on the server deliver the next frame, obviously.
  - dalmo3 2y ago
    AnimeNoJs
- throwaway290 2y ago
  not use animation in the first place :)
  - hydrolox 2y ago
    isn't the point that it's an animation library showcasing what's possible?
    - throwaway290 2y ago
      good point, I read it as about websites in general but in this case why not.
derac 2y ago
For most websites, sure. For this website? It makes sense, it's a great demo for the product.
johnsanders 2y ago
It's not so much about playing/slowing/speeding up an animation or video. It's about moving forward and backward through an "experience," as much as I dislike the overuse of that word. I'd suggest it's a natural evolution of the scroll behavior.

mcluck 2y ago

False. Let the web be fun again

robertlagrant 2y ago

Animation isn't really "playing media".

jacobgkau 2y ago

Part of the smoothness here is that scrolling the text is 1:1 once you get down to the sections with colored headers. It demonstrates that it's possible to make a page look fancy like that without "breaking" your intuition of what scrolling "should be." JS animations obviously don't take the place of video/audio media that you'd play/scrub through.

JulianGarnier 2y ago
Hey I'm the author of the lib, exactly, I don't really "highjack" the body scroll, I'm only controlling the background animations with it, while keeping most of the body content scroll naturally with the page.

jonwinstanley 2y ago

So what would you suggest to use to move the animation forward?

hoc 2y ago
That missing Playdate phone accessory.
evilduck 2y ago
Submitting a form repeatedly by hammering enter and having a new HTML fragment rendered on the server deliver the next frame, obviously.
- dalmo3 2y ago
  AnimeNoJs
throwaway290 2y ago
not use animation in the first place :)
- hydrolox 2y ago
  isn't the point that it's an animation library showcasing what's possible?
  - throwaway290 2y ago
    good point, I read it as about websites in general but in this case why not.

derac 2y ago

For most websites, sure. For this website? It makes sense, it's a great demo for the product.

johnsanders 2y ago

It's not so much about playing/slowing/speeding up an animation or video. It's about moving forward and backward through an "experience," as much as I dislike the overuse of that word. I'd suggest it's a natural evolution of the scroll behavior.