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Re: Experimental Page Layout Inspired By Flipboard

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Post by yason »

rabidsnail wrote: post #27

Why is everyone trying to turn webpages into things other than webpages? What was wrong with text, links, and scrollbars?

That's a good question, I think the reason is that the platform built around viewing web pages is way too flexible and versatile to be dismissed as merely a structured text markup document viewer.

Basically document markup processors are text-driven programs and all programmers know it's just too easy to hook up extra functionality if the behaviour of your program is already defined by a textual input file. Thus , then JavaScript, and a bit later, WebGL.

The text, links, and scrollbars approach is excellent for presenting information (i.e. text documents with images). Happily, the current capabilities of the platform don't preclude this sort of presentation. Certainly some fraction of genuinely informational sites these days are more like programs than documents but I just think in addition to all old and new text+link documents there's a huge array of mostly non-informational entertainment sites that didn't exist in "web 1.0".

I could live with the old-style hypermedia web, too, but sometimes I just wonder if the printing presses ever thought "Damn, these machines were built to print books and distribute information and now these newcomer publishers are using them to print stupid TV magazines with little if any content."

Re: Experimental Page Layout Inspired By Flipboard

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Post by puppymaster »

rabidsnail wrote: post #27

Why is everyone trying to turn webpages into things other than webpages? What was wrong with text, links, and scrollbars?

because sometimes some of us want to experiment with things, to push the envelope and if not anything, to have fun.

Re: Experimental Page Layout Inspired By Flipboard

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Post by idleloops »

thomasfl wrote: post #31

Seems very natural to flip instead scroll to browse content.

I prefer paging content. Maybe you do too?

Try scrolling a web page with page/up/down. Or use the space bar (and shift + space.) Flipping is just paging with an animated transition (the transition I personally don't care for.)

Re: Experimental Page Layout Inspired By Flipboard

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Post by pbotelho »

AVTizzle wrote: post #18
Timothee wrote: post #14

There are some more interesting demos when you click on "Previous demo" repeatedly. And if you like this one, don't miss the how-to: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/05/07/experimental-page-lay...

codrops... This site is very legit. Thanks for sharing. edit Funnily enough, a question about how "legit" this site actually is... Stumbled across one of their demos that was pretty sweet IMO, "Multi-level Photo Map" http://tympanus.net/Development/MultiLevelPhotoMap/ So I Googled "Multi-level Photo Map" and came across a handful of other demos set up the same way, with the same header navigation bars all: - http://p…

Thanks for the links. We will take a look. Be sure that we don't copy content of anybody, ever. These are obviously copies of our work which is not necessarily something against our license. Thanks a lot, Pedro

Re: Experimental Page Layout Inspired By Flipboard

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Post by augustl »

indygreg2 wrote: post #20

Works great for me in Firefox Nightly. Couldn't notice any difference from Chrome, despite the message saying it works best in WebKit.

Also works just fine in the current Firefox stable release. The "works best in webkit" tagline makes them look cool, though :)
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