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Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by maguay »

maguay wrote: post #58
ugh wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the old and unchanged MacBook Air page. Apple heavily customizes product pages – no two look alike. That has always been the case and is definitely nothing new. I think that the Final Cut Studio page was entirely black in the past, maybe even the Mac Pro page. Here is a screenshot from 2007: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pxlronin/542462785/ Also from 2007: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaymeydad/541257980/

It's mostly the same, but the current Macbook Air page does have the new menu.

Ok, right. I wasn't contradicting that the Air page is customized, just was saying that the menu is change. I see what you were meaning now. Sorry!

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by epo »

tophtucker wrote: post #23

Fly-out fly-in animation under Mac and iPod has gotten totally out-of-hand.

Somewhat Pixar-ish, like a crowd of cartoon characters dashing off stage to be replaced by a new bunch. Will get irritating very quickly.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by Tycho »

Love the way the content seems to 'bounce' onto the page like it just got there in the nick of time all at once.

Does anyone know about the gallery/slideshow widget they use on the Mac pages (and elsewhere probably). the div id = 'herogallery'

Wondering if this is a proprietary Apple thing or can other people use it

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by jonknee »

brk wrote: post #51
zaatar wrote: post #2

... and it doesn't work quite right on the iPad. There is a hovering menu bar which is fully blank. I'm surprised they didn't test the site on the iPad before pushing it live. [Edit] Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/DxTKY.png

Probably because they have the Apple Store app for the iPad. However, the Apple Store app does not have all the configuration options for hardware that you get on the real site, as one example.

Technically the Apple Store app is only for the iPhone. There's a lot more on the Apple site than the store.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by jonknee »

I'm seeing a weird bug with the search feature. Typing a search request and then quickly hitting enter gets you taken to a results page that is missing most of or all of your query (depending on how fast you type). It must be something with the search as you type JS, but is very annoying. I tested in both Chrome and Safari.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by kaylarose »

tophtucker wrote: post #23

Fly-out fly-in animation under Mac and iPod has gotten totally out-of-hand.

I wouldn't mind it, but - for me at least - on a just-before-unibody-gen MBP w Chrome, it is really choppy. I basically see the first 2 and last 2 frames of the animation.

It's better on Safari, but still, it would be better the disable the animation on browsers where it performs poorly.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by smackfu »

jonknee wrote: post #65
brk wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because they have the Apple Store app for the iPad. However, the Apple Store app does not have all the configuration options for hardware that you get on the real site, as one example.

Technically the Apple Store app is only for the iPhone. There's a lot more on the Apple site than the store.

And that's mainly because the Apple Store is terrible on the iPhone version of Safari.
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