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I have to admit I was hoping Ben would fall in a open manhole cover towards the bottom of the screen, but alas he did not. Just shows you can always make improvements, even on something as clever as this ;)
This is awesome. They could have put the same message in two paragraphs of text and a bullet-point list, and I would have quickly glanced over it and forget it the same minute. Instead, I had a lot of fun reading each point, several times. It's amazing how user experience IS the key.
I'm on FIOS, and it loaded extremely slow. So for 20 seconds I was staring at just the top image and the person's icon...and wondering how crappy they are to have so much black space.
So the fact that people are using HTML5 to do what people were doing with Flash ten years ago is somehow interesting?
I got all the way back here thinking it was just a pretty splash screen, after trying for 30 seconds to click on things above the fold with no success.
Only after reading comments did I go back to see if there was anything I had missed. I suspect a lot of people clicking through will simply hit the back button and remember nothing but having seen a slow-loading picture of a face.
So the fact that people are using HTML5 to do what people were doing with Flash ten years ago is somehow interesting?
Calling it an “HTML5 website” is a bit of an overreaction IMHO. Other than the DOCTYPE, there’s not much “HTML5” to it. It’s just good old HTML, JavaScript and CSS, wrapped together in a document that happens to use the HTML5 DOCTYPE.
Might want to start it scrolling automatically, or otherwise do a better job of communicating that there's anything to see on the page. I got all the way back here thinking it was just a pretty splash screen, after trying for 30 seconds to click on things above the fold with no success. Only after reading comments did I go back to see if there was anything I had missed. I suspect a lot of people clicking through will…
This is awesome. They could have put the same message in two paragraphs of text and a bullet-point list, and I would have quickly glanced over it and forget it the same minute. Instead, I had a lot of fun reading each point, several times. It's amazing how user experience IS the key.
personally I found it really crappy user experience. I'm on FIOS, and it loaded extremely slow. So for 20 seconds I was staring at just the top image and the person's icon...and wondering how crappy they are to have so much black space.
Calling it an “HTML5 website” is a bit of an overreaction IMHO. Other than the DOCTYPE, there’s not much “HTML5” to it. It’s just good old HTML, JavaScript and CSS, wrapped together in a document that happens to use the HTML5 DOCTYPE.