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How J.J. Abrams Created a Reading Experience Unlike Any Other

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Re: How J.J. Abrams Created a Reading Experience Unlike Any Other

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Post by throwanem »

lvoudour wrote: post #22
munchbunny wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back in the day this would happen because somebody needed to load a whole Flash applet. Web 2.0 was supposed to take us away from that. I suspect the main reason people do it is because progressive loading has the potential to leave your page half-rendered, which looks bad. So you block the whole thing until you can present it in its entirety. But it's the web. We're used to pages half-loading, and we're used to star…

Since mobile browsing is so prevalent, you would expect websites to be more optimised for mobile cpus/bandwidth and therefore very fast on ethernet connected desktops. But more and more I find sites that take so much time to load I feel I'm back to dial-up days. This blog doesn't even have ads. It's absurd considering the fact we can stream full HD content in several devices on the same connection

People develop on localhost or local servers, and don't think about what happens when the RTT exceeds a millisecond.

Re: How J.J. Abrams Created a Reading Experience Unlike Any Other

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Post by Safety1stClyde »

munchbunny wrote: post #17
Arzh wrote: post #5

This website has a reading experience unlike any other, by that I mean it has none since it work load.

I thought it was just a video buffering, but then I scrolled down and the loading wheel followed me. Why can't the text just load first?

> Why can't the text just load first?

Because that wouldn't involve several layers of unnecessary Javascript.

Re: How J.J. Abrams Created a Reading Experience Unlike Any Other

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Post by cocktailpeanuts »

Is it just me or did anyone feel like this website was trying too hard to "create a reading experience unlike any other" of their own? It's like a no-name comedian introducing a world-star comedian for tonight's show, and trying to one-up him (and miserably failing)

They had one job: convey the story of how "J.J abrams created a reading experience unlike any other"? They failed, because I got motion sick and just closed the browser. I would rather read this through some other website when it resurfaces.

These hipster UIs for the sake of themselves need to stop. I thought this was only trendy for a year when NYTimes did it and died off, but apparently some are still doing it.

Re: How J.J. Abrams Created a Reading Experience Unlike Any Other

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Post by H4CK3RM4N »

oh_sigh wrote: post #27
briga wrote: post #20

'Unlike any other' might be a stretch. Writers have been playing these sorts of meta-narrative games for decades now. Nabokov's Pale Fire comes to mind. House of Leaves is another example.

Would you read an article titled 'J.J. Abrams wrote a book similar to some other books'?

I would if it didn't have a horrible UI.

Re: How J.J. Abrams Created a Reading Experience Unlike Any Other

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Post by josinalvo »

briga wrote: post #20

'Unlike any other' might be a stretch. Writers have been playing these sorts of meta-narrative games for decades now. Nabokov's Pale Fire comes to mind. House of Leaves is another example.

It is funny, how we started to use comparisons to mean just adjectives. E.g., 'like no other' -> 'really good'.

Funny, and semantics breaking.

How could we write a title that just said 'the book is really good' and still felt compelling?

Re: How J.J. Abrams Created a Reading Experience Unlike Any Other

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Post by dzdt »

briga wrote: post #20

'Unlike any other' might be a stretch. Writers have been playing these sorts of meta-narrative games for decades now. Nabokov's Pale Fire comes to mind. House of Leaves is another example.

Griffin and Sabine (Nick Bantock) is also somewhat similar. There the entirety of the story is cards and letters written between the title characters. It has the same idea of having these as inserts within the book. It was well done; the "found object" nature of it has a nice quality.

Re: How J.J. Abrams Created a Reading Experience Unlike Any Other

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Post by colordrops »

J.J. Abrams is self-important and overrated. His works are predictable and uninspiring. He has become a name to attach to anything slightly fantasy or sci-fi oriented in Hollywood regardless of how much actual work he has put into the project. He's trying to be the next Spielberg but he's just a pale shadow.

I don't like being so negative but he's pulled the wool over too many eyes.

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