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After getting tired of scrolling (which reminded me of this http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/

After getting tired of scrolling (which reminded me of this http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h... where you scroll through vast distances to appreciate how far apart things in our solar system are) and noticing the huge headings separated by large vertical whitespace, I had an idea: since the headings are so huge, I could just zoom way out and see and read all the headings! Unfortunately, the page outsmarted me and as I zoomed out, it somehow figured out I was doing this and increased the font size so it's the same size it was at 72 points when I was at 100% zoom. Well, all right web designer. You "win". The amount of effort you put into defeating my efforts to read your content is astounding.

jlongster 12y ago
The amount of work is simple: h1 { font-size: 5vw; } The `vw` units are relative to the page width. You would rather have to press the right arrow key 50 times? I find it to be a whole lot faster to scroll quickly through content rather than forcing me to click through every single damn slide. EDIT: It is interesting that the vw/vh units don't take zoom into effect, I hadn't thought of that. Interesting.
- gdilla 12y ago
  actually, yes. Compared to scrolling football fields to get to the next item, a one-push interaction would be better.
  - jlongster 12y ago
    Scanning through the content (going from slide 5 to slide 20) is far faster with scrolling, at least with Apple's trackpad and OS X's scrolling inertia. Maybe it doesn't work as well on other devices. But it is useful to walk through each slide with a keypress, so I'll probably add that feature as well. I want both.
- logicallee 12y ago
  no, I'd like the text to get smaller when I zoom out. Why else would I or anyone zoom out!
chc 12y ago
It's not actually figuring anything out. The header is specified in vw units, which are relative to the size of the viewport.
- zyxley 12y ago
  For a text article, that's just bad design.
  - chc 12y ago
    I feel like this is a misbehavior in browsers' zoom function, though the effect is the same. Does anyone know if the standard actually requires this quirk?
edofic 12y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://jlongster.com/Why-React-Native-is-Different&strip=1 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... google cache, text only view
natural219 12y ago
I hate to pile on, but I also find this incredibly hard to read. The problem is that the precision with scrolling one "slide" down is very hard to get the same every time. Clicking a right arrow guarantees one click, one slide, whereas with this UX I'm constantly scrolling, then reading, then scrolling, then reading, and it's enough to make me not want to read the content. I'm normally not a UX pedant, either.

jlongster 12y ago

The amount of work is simple: h1 { font-size: 5vw; } The `vw` units are relative to the page width. You would rather have to press the right arrow key 50 times? I find it to be a whole lot faster to scroll quickly through content rather than forcing me to click through every single damn slide. EDIT: It is interesting that the vw/vh units don't take zoom into effect, I hadn't thought of that. Interesting.

gdilla 12y ago
actually, yes. Compared to scrolling football fields to get to the next item, a one-push interaction would be better.
- jlongster 12y ago
  Scanning through the content (going from slide 5 to slide 20) is far faster with scrolling, at least with Apple's trackpad and OS X's scrolling inertia. Maybe it doesn't work as well on other devices. But it is useful to walk through each slide with a keypress, so I'll probably add that feature as well. I want both.
logicallee 12y ago
no, I'd like the text to get smaller when I zoom out. Why else would I or anyone zoom out!

chc 12y ago

It's not actually figuring anything out. The header is specified in vw units, which are relative to the size of the viewport.

zyxley 12y ago
For a text article, that's just bad design.
- chc 12y ago
  I feel like this is a misbehavior in browsers' zoom function, though the effect is the same. Does anyone know if the standard actually requires this quirk?

edofic 12y ago

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://jlongster.com/Why-React-Native-is-Different&strip=1 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... google cache, text only view

natural219 12y ago

I hate to pile on, but I also find this incredibly hard to read. The problem is that the precision with scrolling one "slide" down is very hard to get the same every time. Clicking a right arrow guarantees one click, one slide, whereas with this UX I'm constantly scrolling, then reading, then scrolling, then reading, and it's enough to make me not want to read the content. I'm normally not a UX pedant, either.