This may look great on the desktop, but its pretty horrible on mobile.
Mobile as in tiny screen or mobile as in smartphone/tablet? I could see this work nicely on a tablet.
Riding the New Silk Road
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#62This reminds me of the book "Danziger's Travels."
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#63Amazing!
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#64Great use of HTML5 video! These clips are in WebM, what is shown in browsers that don't support it?
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#65Time to trot out trivia. As the article points out, the Silk Road faded in importance in the 1400s. But it doesn't say why. There 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…
Can you recommend some books on the topic?
Re: Riding the New Silk Road
#66Time to trot out trivia. As the article points out, the Silk Road faded in importance in the 1400s. But it doesn't say why. There 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…
> long-term economic and military decline of areas like the Middle East It put in motion the long-term decline of the Venetian Republic, as well, which made most of its money trading with the middle east. Interestingly enough, this also led the Venetians to focus a bit more on their land conquests in northern Italy, so there are some areas that received more attention at that point: swamps drained, villas built, and…
Some of my grand-grand-...-parents moved from Venice to England around that time, together with many other families.
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#67Wow, the new york times is doing some incredible work. They are really moving the web forward.
I believe they were RoR early adopters and one of their guys is a leading contributor to ClojureScript.
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#68It'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
I watched on a 5 year old Mac in Chrome. Looked great to me.
It worked well on my 5 year old netbook.
FreeBSD.
Xombrero.
Re: Riding the New Silk Road
#69Great use of HTML5 video! These clips are in WebM, what is shown in browsers that don't support it?
They have MP4 as well.
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#70This is pretty much how the future of photojournalism was imagined. The only difference is that it's not on magical video paper, which isn't that far away anyway.