The Onion releases fartscroll.js

#1

Post by jgv » Thu, May 09, 2013, 12:34 PM UTC

Re: The Onion releases fartscroll.js

#2

Post by tonetheman » Thu, May 09, 2013, 12:44 PM UTC

Pretty sure this is genius. Finally a .js site that makes sense.

#3

Post by neeee » Thu, May 09, 2013, 12:44 PM UTC

Demo?

#4

Post by bifftannen » Thu, May 09, 2013, 12:45 PM UTC

This is the most important development of our time. You cannot deny this.

#5

Post by jhull » Thu, May 09, 2013, 12:45 PM UTC

neeee wrote: post #3

Demo?

Just scroll on the site itself

#6

Post by jhull » Thu, May 09, 2013, 12:46 PM UTC

I wonder if putting something like this on a checkout page for Gas-X or anti-diarrheals might actually increase conversions.

#7

Post by MattBearman » Thu, May 09, 2013, 12:47 PM UTC

This jQuery extension is a breath of fresh air

#8

Post by Aardwolf » Thu, May 09, 2013, 12:48 PM UTC

jhull wrote: post #5

neeee wrote: post #3

Demo?

Just scroll on the site itself

They should have included more text to allow more scrolling.

#9

Post by twerquie » Thu, May 09, 2013, 12:49 PM UTC

Can this be considered a code smell?

#10

Post by noelwelsh » Thu, May 09, 2013, 12:50 PM UTC

The sounds are included directly in the JS, which is pretty neat: https://github.com/theonion/fartscroll.js/blob/master/fartsc...