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+100. It looks modern yet very readable thanks to great typography. Loads fast. Fully usable on mobile as well. E.g. Gets a hamburger menu on Mobile. The featu
by solutionyogi 12y ago
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It looks modern yet very readable thanks to great typography. Loads fast. Fully usable on mobile as well. E.g. Gets a hamburger menu on Mobile. The featured client animation is simpler. The spinning globe icon is replaced by a static image. They have absolutely top notch front end engineering talent.
This is in huge contrast to the current trend where they want to hijack browser's scrolling behavior for absolutely no gain to the end user.
- platz 12y agoSome tradeoffs though; this is what it looks like on IE9 http://i.imgur.com/EkH81zN.png http://i.imgur.com/EkH81zN.png
- bkrausz 12y agoIt's working properly in our IE9 VM. Are you getting JS errors? Any other debugging info would be great.
- platz 12y agoIE11 has a feature, Emulation: Document Mode = IE9. No JS errors, so I assume it's a difference of how the "Document Mode = IE9" fails to actually emulate true IE9. Sorry for the false positive.
- radicalbyte 12y agoI recommend you look at image optimization. Loading the /nl flag page from NL takes > 9 seconds. On a connection with 20Mb/s down with one of the best ISPs available. There are 3MB of images on the page; the problem seems to be the high-res map, which weights in at 1.5MB. This image is 2290x798 and it's in an element of 1145x399. I've halved the resolution and converted it to a JPEG, now it's 0.2MB. To make it even easier for you to show the designers I've uploaded it here: http://imgur.com/XcGllGz http://imgur.com/XcGllGz. EDIT: it's worse, almost every image in the carousel is double-sized and unoptimized. Otherwise it's pretty.
- zsoltgyongyosi 12y agoA wild guess, but maybe they target retina displays.
- ricardobeat 12y agoYou are talking about the home page, right? Images are double size for retina displays. Your JPEG version is pointless, the flags are placed on top of the background and need an alpha channel. The page is indeed a bit heavy but not enough to impair the experience, first paint is still under 3s. Remember the audience for this page is 90% software developers, with powerful machines and high bandwidth.
- radicalbyte 12y ago> flags are placed on top of the background and need an alpha channel Ok, that explains the huge PNGs; can't they be rendered as-is (i.e. include part of the background in the foreground picture? > first paint is still under 3s That's really slow. The jankey animation (yay Apple) and rasterized image rendering is horrible; it's a throwback to the late-90s internet. > the audience for this page is 90% software developers, > with powerful machines and high bandwidth. I.e. me, and I find it horribly slow. I'm using a year old rMBP and I have a pretty good internet connection (20MB/s, 10x what I could get in the UK and I actually get pretty close to the max all the time; for a comparison: http://www.webanalyticsworld.net/2014/08/internet-speed-gap-widens.html http://www.webanalyticsworld.net/2014/08/internet-speed-gap-...). Sure, I'd love fiber, but that's not exactly broadly available (though if I could move my house 1km to the east I'd have it).
- puranjay 12y agoStripe's product is for developers. I highly doubt there are developers using IE9. It's an audience Stripe can comfortably choose to ignore.
- true_religion 12y agoWhilst that sounds logically. You're replying to someone on HN, who is presumably a developer and detected this bug in IE9.
- nostalgiac 12y agoMore than likely that developer checked it in IE9 after seeing the great front-end design, and does not primarily browse the web in IE9 (what sane person would?) Edit: he commented below saying it was IE11 with the IE9 emulation enabled.
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- Kalium 12y agoI believe the current trend is designed around an Apple-esque disregard for what the user thinks they want.
- threefour 12y agotypography...usability...graphics... They do have great design talent :-)
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