It's great to try new formats, but the experience is completely broken on my now-slightly-aging Windows laptop. I wish web developer/designers would test their pages on regular hardware instead of 27" iMacs or rMPB... The scrolling is horribly lagging, and the gifs/videos are all black: http://prntscr.com/1gq4he http://prntscr.com/1gq5b6
Riding the New Silk Road
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe because it wasn't meant to be read from a mobile device? Not everything needs to be mobile.
Point taken, but... "In the US, 67% of mobile internet users surveyed by Decision Fuel and On Device Research in November 2012 said they mostly or only used mobile, as opposed to the desktop, to go online and surf the web." Read more at http://www.emarketer.com/Article/How-Do-Internet-Users-Divvy... If your goal is to connect with people, then ignoring the mobile experience for the sake of optimizing the web experien…
Furthermore, I get the impression that their definition of "mostly or only" means more than 50%, which is not the most helpful. It'd be more helpful to do a category-based breakdown for that, which will probably see desktop usage being higher than mobile for news/media.
Re: Riding the New Silk Road
#34There were three major reasons why it faded.
The first was the final fall of Constantinople in 1453, ending the last remnant of the original Roman Empire. This made trade with Europe harder.
The second was the development, initially by the Portuguese but followed by others, of direct sea routes to India, and then China, which bypassed the much more expensive land routes.
The third was the opening up of the Americas as potential sources of commodities.
The result was a long-term economic and military decline of areas like the Middle East. The extent of which was not realized by the West until Napoleon conquered Egypt.
Re: Riding the New Silk Road
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#36This may look great on the desktop, but its pretty horrible on mobile.
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#38http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/07/21/silk-ro...
In addition, d3's scales are used to set up the variable-rate scrolling (see kazak.interaction.scroll function).
Re: Riding the New Silk Road
#39This may look great on the desktop, but its pretty horrible on mobile.
Re: Riding the New Silk Road
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Point taken, but... "In the US, 67% of mobile internet users surveyed by Decision Fuel and On Device Research in November 2012 said they mostly or only used mobile, as opposed to the desktop, to go online and surf the web." Read more at http://www.emarketer.com/Article/How-Do-Internet-Users-Divvy... If your goal is to connect with people, then ignoring the mobile experience for the sake of optimizing the web experien…
By your own source, news and media is only 5% (/4% as part of the table below it) of mobile use. This would fall into that category. Furthermore, I get the impression that their definition of "mostly or only" means more than 50%, which is not the most helpful. It'd be more helpful to do a category-based breakdown for that, which will probably see desktop usage being higher than mobile for news/media.