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Re: KitKat's new website

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Post by babuskov »

boards2x wrote: post #16

Nice looking site. But why associate your product with junk food?

Android releases are named after some sweet, and going alphabetically. They just reached letter K. I'm not sure I can think of some other sweet starting with K?

Re: KitKat's new website

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Post by RobAley »

sharan wrote: post #19
RobAley wrote: post #18

Nestle is a truly horrible company[1], this hook-up has really re-enforced the notion in my eyes that Google is now just another big multi-national corp in the same vein as the rest. It's sad, because I used to think they could show the world that a big corp didn't have to do things that way. I'm not sure if they changed or if I was just naive. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9#Controversy_and_cri...

You arrived at this conclusion as a result of Android's naming convention which uses food names instead of version numbers?

No, I arrived at that conclusion because KitKat and Google have both publicly announced the tie-up, and Google doesn't seem to understand, or more likely doesn't care, what it means to actively promote a company like Nestle. There are plently of other "K" foods they could choose if they wanted to.

To be fair, it's not just this incident that helped me reach the conclusion, its been festering at the back of my mind for a while.

Re: KitKat's new website

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Post by stuaxo »

jasonkester wrote: post #14

Pretty. But do there exist web browsers that display these scroll-to-animate sites correctly? Using either mousewheel or dragging the scrollbar (or worse still, dragging on an iPad), it's never anything but choppy choppiness and I miss important bits of text as they scroll past entirely between the little click stops on my mouse wheel. Surely it must be possible to actually view these sites, as evidenced by the fact…

Use the middle click scroll.

Middle click, then drag mouse down a little bit, then sit and watch.

[EDIT] Tested in FF and Chrome, surprisingly FF was smoother on my computer.

Re: KitKat's new website

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Post by RobAley »

ig1 wrote: post #29
RobAley wrote: post #18

Nestle is a truly horrible company[1], this hook-up has really re-enforced the notion in my eyes that Google is now just another big multi-national corp in the same vein as the rest. It's sad, because I used to think they could show the world that a big corp didn't have to do things that way. I'm not sure if they changed or if I was just naive. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9#Controversy_and_cri...

You realize your smartphone almost certainly has metals mined or processed by children in dangerous and unhealthy work environments ?

Yes. Next time I upgrade, I've got my eye on fairphone.com, for what it's worth.

Not quite sure what that argument has to do with my preposition though. I had no such illusions about my phone manufacturer (Samsung). Google set out on a different path ("Do No Evil"), but turns out they're not much different to Samsung et. al. now, and that was my argument. Many still see them as working in a different way, but they don't.

Re: KitKat's new website

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Post by hatu »

bgarbiak wrote: post #23
jasonkester wrote: post #14

Pretty. But do there exist web browsers that display these scroll-to-animate sites correctly? Using either mousewheel or dragging the scrollbar (or worse still, dragging on an iPad), it's never anything but choppy choppiness and I miss important bits of text as they scroll past entirely between the little click stops on my mouse wheel. Surely it must be possible to actually view these sites, as evidenced by the fact…

It works great on basically any browser on a system with the Apple's Magic Mouse. I'm still wondering why there's no some sort of smoothing polyfill in wide use.

Agh, this should definitely be a design anti-pattern. Don't change my browsers functionality. If I wanted smooth scrolling I would find a way to turn it on.
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