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I imagine the interactive elements may not render correctly even just 5 years from now.

SamReidHughes 11y ago
What interactive elements? All I saw as part of the content were static images, and newspapers have had those for a long time. There were some other illustrations and animations, kind of like the way some children's books have them interspersed among the text, but none of those were interactive either.
- poppup 11y ago
  Another poster also referred to the animations as interactive... I guess some people think of animations as interactive.
  - kzrdude 11y ago
    I see animations that are driven by scrolling. Which you can control and scrub backwards and forwards again. So it's got an interactive element.
- flashman 11y ago
  The Times broadly refers to this kind of storytelling as 'interactive' judging by this 2014 showcase: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/29/us/year-in-interactive-storytelling.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/29/us/year-in-int... I guess the underlying question is how they plan to support these web technologies into the future; what's their long-term technical debt in that sense?
  - jballanc 11y ago
    Given that past coders for the NYTimes have included the creator of CoffeScript/Backbone and the current maintainer of ClojureScript/Om, it seems (at least anecdotally) that whomever is in charge of staffing the dev team is doing a decent job. Of course, some of the worst technical debt I've had to deal with came from "world-class developers", so this is no guarantee that they won't collapse under the weight of their own code at some point...but I think the odds are at least in their favor.
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comex 11y ago
Why not? It's not like web browsers habitually break compatibility, with some notable exceptions (removal of Flash and Java)... I guess it could break as part of a CMS refresh.
- huskyr 11y ago
  The chance that this will break because of a CMS update, a new paywall, site-wide Javascript updates is far higher than because of a web browser upgrade.

What interactive elements? All I saw as part of the content were static images, and newspapers have had those for a long time. There were some other illustrations and animations, kind of like the way some children's books have them interspersed among the text, but none of those were interactive either.

poppup 11y ago
Another poster also referred to the animations as interactive... I guess some people think of animations as interactive.
- kzrdude 11y ago
  I see animations that are driven by scrolling. Which you can control and scrub backwards and forwards again. So it's got an interactive element.
flashman 11y ago
The Times broadly refers to this kind of storytelling as 'interactive' judging by this 2014 showcase: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/29/us/year-in-interactive-storytelling.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/29/us/year-in-int... I guess the underlying question is how they plan to support these web technologies into the future; what's their long-term technical debt in that sense?
- jballanc 11y ago
  Given that past coders for the NYTimes have included the creator of CoffeScript/Backbone and the current maintainer of ClojureScript/Om, it seems (at least anecdotally) that whomever is in charge of staffing the dev team is doing a decent job. Of course, some of the worst technical debt I've had to deal with came from "world-class developers", so this is no guarantee that they won't collapse under the weight of their own code at some point...but I think the odds are at least in their favor.

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comex 11y ago

Why not? It's not like web browsers habitually break compatibility, with some notable exceptions (removal of Flash and Java)... I guess it could break as part of a CMS refresh.

huskyr 11y ago
The chance that this will break because of a CMS update, a new paywall, site-wide Javascript updates is far higher than because of a web browser upgrade.