Funny idea, but lot of these seem off. - A chicken egg is taller than 5cm. - I would say a tulip is bigger than a phone. - The okay hand sign says it's 21 cm.My hands are larger than average, but definitely smaller than 21cm. - A duck isn't bigger than a goat. - An elephant is smaller than a house.
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#12Is it rendering the Emojis using the local emoji set so for example if I'm on an Android phone I will see the Android emojis and if I'm on an iPhone I will see the iPhone emojis?
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#14What is the yellow smiley face that's twice as large as Japan but smaller than the earth and oh god I can see it in the sky it's look--
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#15As someone not very up-to-date in Web UI techniques, I was curious as to how the array was being advanced on scroll. Unfortunately, it looks like the answer is basically polling. The code constantly calls window.requestAnimationFrame(), checking window.pageYOffset. This means that the page is constantly doing work, even at idle.
Surely the more correct way is to install an onscroll handler or something, right?
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#17I love the idea, but the algorithm for scaling seems a bit off. For example, it shows the human as much larger than the car.
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#18Neat concept. As someone not very up-to-date in Web UI techniques, I was curious as to how the array was being advanced on scroll. Unfortunately, it looks like the answer is basically polling. The code constantly calls window.requestAnimationFrame(), checking window.pageYOffset. This means that the page is constantly doing work, even at idle. Surely the more correct way is to install an onscroll handler or something,…