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It's great to try new formats, but the experience is completely broken on my now-slightly-aging Windows laptop. I wish web developer/designers would test their

It's great to try new formats, but the experience is completely broken on my now-slightly-aging Windows laptop. I wish web developer/designers would test their pages on regular hardware instead of 27" iMacs or rMPB... The scrolling is horribly lagging, and the gifs/videos are all black: http://prntscr.com/1gq4he http://prntscr.com/1gq4he http://prntscr.com/1gq5b6 http://prntscr.com/1gq5b6

emilyst 13y ago
I have to wonder, which browser?
- cocoflunchy 13y ago
  Chrome latest... Maybe something's wrong with my computer?
  - veemjeem 13y ago
    Works great fine over here on my 4 year old windows machine. Maybe it's time to do the annual windows reinstall...
    - Cthulhu_ 13y ago
      What annual Windows reinstall? As far as I'm concerned, that's a thing from a decade ago. I haven't done a Windows reinstall (or even had a virus scanner) in years without any hitches.
  - nemothekid 13y ago
    Looks like a problem with your graphics card driver.
rsingel 13y ago
I watched on a 5 year old Mac in Chrome. Looked great to me.
- D9u 13y ago
  It worked well on my 5 year old netbook. FreeBSD. Xombrero.
- onethree 13y ago
  i tried watching this on my work laptop which forces me to use IE8. i got a grey screen, without even any text
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dclowd9901 13y ago
It'd be nice if there was a machineable way to test UI in varying browsers. Litmus.com gets close, but it's only for emails, and "all" it does is render the emails in like 40 different clients (which is actually amazing). But it'd be nice to be able to say, "Yes, this version in chrome is what I want it to look like," and you get back scores that determine how "close" the other versions are to the version you selected as your reference (0-100%?). Seems like one could achieve this with some sort of pixel diff algorithm.
- MaxGabriel 13y ago
  We're having the same problem at work with the same ad unit HTML/CSS shared across iOS and android phones and tablets. My laptop looks like an octopus with various devices tethered to the computer, there's not enough hardware to share, and it slows iteration as well.
socillion 13y ago
This isn't your problem, but HTTPS-Everywhere reproducibly breaks the page for me on Firefox with the default ruleset containing nytimes.com. Once disabled, the images load fine.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
  It always breaks nytimes.
agumonkey 13y ago
Ran almost smooth and without rendering glitches on a 2007 CoreDuo with intel IGP. Try to pop a live linux distro (e.g: Mint 15) on usb it might be pleasant.
DanBC 13y ago
The experience gracefully degraded (I had images, but they were all static, but everything else seemed to work) on my lousy stupid 3g dongle connection (which manages to break a disturbing amount of content) but some reconnections and it works now. I tend to agree with your main point, especially when the bells and whistles are pointless frippery that don't actually do anything. In this case the use actually adds value to the page. I've spent a while on various websites learning more about the Silk Road history, and about the current geo-political stuff.
NamTaf 13y ago
I'm confused. Some of the videos play in Chrome 28.0.1500.72 m (the gun turret bushes, the train driving, the control panel) but not all (the forklift container gauge change does not). Firefox 22.0 seems to play them all. It's a pity the media experience isn't consistent across browsers.
yurifury 13y ago
I have the same problem on my slightly aging Windows laptop too, but I get the same thing on Youtube, so it's not just this page for me.

emilyst 13y ago

I have to wonder, which browser?

cocoflunchy 13y ago
Chrome latest... Maybe something's wrong with my computer?
- veemjeem 13y ago
  Works great fine over here on my 4 year old windows machine. Maybe it's time to do the annual windows reinstall...
  - Cthulhu_ 13y ago
    What annual Windows reinstall? As far as I'm concerned, that's a thing from a decade ago. I haven't done a Windows reinstall (or even had a virus scanner) in years without any hitches.
- nemothekid 13y ago
  Looks like a problem with your graphics card driver.

rsingel 13y ago

I watched on a 5 year old Mac in Chrome. Looked great to me.

D9u 13y ago
It worked well on my 5 year old netbook. FreeBSD. Xombrero.
onethree 13y ago
i tried watching this on my work laptop which forces me to use IE8. i got a grey screen, without even any text

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dclowd9901 13y ago

It'd be nice if there was a machineable way to test UI in varying browsers. Litmus.com gets close, but it's only for emails, and "all" it does is render the emails in like 40 different clients (which is actually amazing). But it'd be nice to be able to say, "Yes, this version in chrome is what I want it to look like," and you get back scores that determine how "close" the other versions are to the version you selected as your reference (0-100%?). Seems like one could achieve this with some sort of pixel diff algorithm.

MaxGabriel 13y ago
We're having the same problem at work with the same ad unit HTML/CSS shared across iOS and android phones and tablets. My laptop looks like an octopus with various devices tethered to the computer, there's not enough hardware to share, and it slows iteration as well.

socillion 13y ago

This isn't your problem, but HTTPS-Everywhere reproducibly breaks the page for me on Firefox with the default ruleset containing nytimes.com. Once disabled, the images load fine.

TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
It always breaks nytimes.

agumonkey 13y ago

Ran almost smooth and without rendering glitches on a 2007 CoreDuo with intel IGP. Try to pop a live linux distro (e.g: Mint 15) on usb it might be pleasant.

DanBC 13y ago

The experience gracefully degraded (I had images, but they were all static, but everything else seemed to work) on my lousy stupid 3g dongle connection (which manages to break a disturbing amount of content) but some reconnections and it works now. I tend to agree with your main point, especially when the bells and whistles are pointless frippery that don't actually do anything. In this case the use actually adds value to the page. I've spent a while on various websites learning more about the Silk Road history, and about the current geo-political stuff.

NamTaf 13y ago

I'm confused. Some of the videos play in Chrome 28.0.1500.72 m (the gun turret bushes, the train driving, the control panel) but not all (the forklift container gauge change does not). Firefox 22.0 seems to play them all. It's a pity the media experience isn't consistent across browsers.

yurifury 13y ago

I have the same problem on my slightly aging Windows laptop too, but I get the same thing on Youtube, so it's not just this page for me.