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Re: KitKat's new website

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Post by stephengillie »

mattmanser wrote: post #44
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's working great on my admittedly beefy Win 7 Laptop on Chrome with my mouse wheel or dragging the scroll bar. The mouse scroll is a little choppy in that it jumps in tiny increments rather than elegantly transitions. It would be nice if they supported the keyboard too though.

It works great on my Win 7 desktop with a C2D and low-level Radeon video in Chrome, with Javascript disabled. Not even slightly choppy at all.

Re: KitKat's new website

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Post by DanBC »

strickjb9 wrote: post #108
RobAley wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I'm not sure I see this as anything more as a co-branding strategy.

But it's a co-branding strategy with a company that is widely condemned as having some horrible (and illegal) practices.

It's trivially easy to find these. I cannot believe that anyone at the largest search engine company in history failed to find or read criticism of Nestle before announcing the co branding.

The only conclusion to draw is that Google knew about, and did not care about, the criticism of Nestle.

Why not go the easy route and find a less obviously evil company?

Re: KitKat's new website

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Post by tfinniga »

lewispollard wrote: post #24
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…

I think the only device that's worked well with them is a Macbook with the smooth scrolling on the trackpad.

True. There are some windows trackpads that have that same smooth scrolling trackpads.. I've used some hp laptops that also have it, for example.

Re: KitKat's new website

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Post by donalmacc »

chr1 wrote: post #26
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…

Recent version of all browsers have roughly the same performance. But you need relatively new hardware. Old p4 and on-board graphics card won't handle it.

I'm on safari on 10.8.4, up to date. i7, 8GB ram and an AMD HD6490M, and it runs crap.

Re: KitKat's new website

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Post by Schlaefer »

bgruber wrote: post #88
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…

was i the only one that found that the kitkat site performed well, while the android one stuttered?

The Android site uses a lot of (annoying) JS driven CSS opacity changing and also the font-smoothing CSS attribute. My money would be on that.

Re: KitKat's new website

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Post by RobAley »

pixie_ wrote: post #109
RobAley wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

If you avoided every company that has done morally reprehensible things, then you would probably be naked right now and have no way to get to work.

You would be surprised at what you can achieve with a little effort and using mainly smaller companies with an ethical bent (certainly ethical clothing and bicycles are available).

Nevertheless, I agree it is hard, and I'll likely be using some of Googles services for a while yet. My main point is how my view of them has changed, and that will make me seek out alternatives when possible.

Re: KitKat's new website

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Post by ape4 »

willvarfar wrote: post #80
ape4 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who is sponsoring who?

Nestle paid for product placement of 'kitkat'. Nestle have given press releases describing their 'collaboration', and even set up this website. Its inconceivable that Google did not demand payment; Google could have called it something generic like all their previous versions. Google of course probably approached Nestle. They created a new revenue generating angle on creating an OS. Debian ought to go get money from…

Might become a thing. Of course, Android is more famous than Ubuntu (to the masses)
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