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Woah. This is a pretty cool reactive article. It's the first one that I've personally encountered which reacts like it's supposed to, engaging me as I read.
by JonSkeptic 13y ago
Woah. This is a pretty cool reactive article. It's the first one that I've personally encountered which reacts like it's supposed to, engaging me as I read.
Congratulations to whoever put this together, it was very well done.
- blueblob 13y agoThis is probably the coolest site I have seen in terms of reactiveness. They even had the insight to have the backgrounds of the videos the same color as the site background. Awesome!
- pdubs 13y agoI agree...except that if you select any text it prompts you to tweet it. For readers that compulsively select text as they read (like me), it's infuriating.
- joshstrange 13y agoI'm in the same boat, I've considered looking for a Chrome extension to kill all scripts that do this. I've used text selection to mark my place for longer than I can remember and all the popups are starting to get extremely annoying. I fear that I am in the minority when it comes to this though...
- ne0phyte 13y agoI've always done that and I just checked the comments to see if someone else complained about that horrible flaw. How on earth did they think that text selection as an event to open a popup is a good idea?!
- mercuryrising 13y agoA small, but vocal minority.
- selmnoo 13y agoI don't think it's a small minority. I'd say every 2 or 3 of 5 heavy computers users I know do this. I'm not one of them (I do it, just rarely), and I've gotta say it annoys the hell out of me too. Totally unnecessary distraction is what it is.
- Amadou 13y agoIt is a classic design failure mode - form over function. It may even be the most common category of design failure out there.
- X4 13y agoDoes it at least stop, when you tweet?
- captainmojo 13y agoThis happened to me 5 or 6 times before I had the wherewithal to kick the habit.
- shmerl 13y agoYeah, very well designed and with proper HTML video.
- mmcclure 13y agoThis might be the coolest news article layout I've seen...It's awesome to see HTML5 video used in an unobtrusive, classy way like this. I was also excited to see they're using Video.js, with a super subtle theme that matches the rest of the site (when controls are showing). Really well done.
- shmerl 13y agoSince most news and media sites are plagued by buggy Flash video players which barely if ever work for me on Linux, this in contrast was really refreshing.
- CamperBob2 13y agoShouldn't auto-play, though. That is never OK.
- brewdad 13y agoNormally I would completely agree. However, since it doesn't autoplay until the active video is fully on screen and there is a prominent link to turn autoplay off right next to the video control, I'm willing to forgive the use of autoplay this time.
- dingaling 13y agoAll Flash video for me, FF24 on Linux. Thankfully, because Flashblock did its thing and suppressed it all. What an horrific example of presentation over content. Anyway there is no 'HTML5 video'. It's H264, or VP8, or whatever.
- shmerl 13y agoNo Flash for me there at all. I checked the video - it was Theora/Vorbis (OGV). I wonder how you got Flash instead. There is HTML video - the video tag. No Flash attached.
- welder 13y agoFrom the bottom of the article: Video: Bob Sacha Production: Kenan Davis, Nadja Popovich, Kenton Powell, Ewen MacAskill, Ruth Spencer, Lisa van Gelder Additional Production: Spencer Ackerman, Kayla Epstein, Paul Lewis, Amanda Michel, Katie Rogers, Dominic Rushe Also: By EWEN MACASKILL and GABRIEL DANCE Produced by FEILDING CAGE and GREG CHEN
- leephillips 13y agoI agree. Anyone have any knowledge of the tools used to create this?
- mmcclure 13y agoThe video player is Video.js with light styling (or controls disabled entirely). Other than that it's all CSS and some JS to trigger events (such as play/pause in the player at scroll points).
- emhart 13y agoTranscends the genre to feel more like a museum exhibit than a news article. I love it.