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Re: KitKat's new website

#61

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?

How are they going to name it after they deplete the alphabet?

Re: KitKat's new website

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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...

Rather than "truly horrible", it's fairer to say that it's controversial in the UK. For example, on one hand there has been a long standing boycott at university Student Unions, on the other about everybody has a Nescafé tin at home.

Re: KitKat's new website

#64

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

Depends on your definition of junk food. Chocolate covered biscuits were considered a delicacy and a snack before it was called junk.

afaic chocolate covered biscuits fall quite neatly into most any definition of junk food...

Re: KitKat's new website

#65

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…

Works fine for me. I was shocked because I have JS disabled.

Re: KitKat's new website

#67

There are easter eggs, type "haveabreak" or "up up down down left right left right b a".

Nice find. There are no other possibilities to start this easter egg, though. Yet, there are actually three different images that might be shown:

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Re: KitKat's new website

#68
post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The Mac doesn't use smooth scrooling, but naturalistic scrolling: It scrolls exactly as you move your fingers. Smooth scrolling is more of a scroll wheel feature.

Re: KitKat's new website

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 fo…

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