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Lack of scroll animation support for touch devices seems like a deal breaker, no?
by CoryG89 13y ago
Lack of scroll animation support for touch devices seems like a deal breaker, no?
- callmevlad 13y agoMost touch devices have terribly slow performance for scroll-based triggers, so we decided to disable them to improve user experience for now. We're working on ways to optimize performance, and will allow a way to manually enable the scroll trigger if you really want to enable it.
- Cowicide 13y agoI guess this gets to the crux of the problem with these sort of things where people make websites based on templates and WYSIWYG tools without much (or any) coding knowledge. If these codeless "devs" get hired by someone to make their website and the customer wants certain things to work, the non-coding "developer" will be at the whim of the capabilities of the WYSIWYG tool they use, not their own coding capabilities. I suppose as long as the codeless "dev" is upfront with their clients that they don't know code and are upfront that they have a limited offering, it's ethical. As long as the client knows that certain customizations may or may not be available to them and it also reflects the cost of the "development". Don't get me wrong, I think WYSIWYG apps are great in principle, but in practice I think it's pretty limited on where they should be applied.
- coderzach 13y agoNo, the limiting factor in this case is the mobile browser itself not actually not firing enough scroll/touch events. It's literally not possible to do with native scrolling. That said, I'm not sure where your premise that WYSIWYG editors are necessarily less powerful than code actually comes from.
- dgavey 13y agoNone of the scroll animations work in Firefox either. Not just touch based devices. Didn't leave a very good impression on me.
- kkilat 13y agoKyle from Webflow here. Are you on the latest version of Firefox (28.0)? The scrolling animations are working for us.
- atom-morgan 13y agoI'm also having similar issues on Firefox 28. Chrome 34 looks good though.
- talmand 13y agoI'm on Firefox 28 on OS X, I see no scrolling animations.
- Neff 13y agoSame issue here. FF 28.0 on OS X (10.8) and none of the animations are working. Works fine on Chrome and Safari
- dgavey 13y agoYes FF 28 on OSX as well.
- brokenparser 13y agoFF28 Fedora, the animations work but scrolling is choppy (like a slide show).
- jol 13y agoWorks fine on FF on Ubuntu 28.
- gavinpc 13y agoThe scroll animations don't work for me either, Firefox 28 on Windows. Works in Chrome. But frankly I like it better without them. They add no value to the page. When Bret Victor talks about "directing the user's eyes to the solution," [1] I believe he's assuming an information-dense display, which this is not. The page is designed (as many are now) so that only one thing is on the screen at a time. I already know how to look at the thing I'm scrolling to — that's why I'm scrolling. This eye candy is kind of nauseating and I'm happy to think it's a fad. This is a critique of the OP, not of Webflow, which I'm sure can be put to good use. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7598793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7598793