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Re: Turn.js 4th Release is out and amazing

#11

I looked at the samples in your github project. All the samples there have jpegs as pages. Do you have something similar to the demo on the live site (html instead of image files)? Nice work.

Click on the steve jobs bio - its html5. You can click on the menu and highlight text.

Re: Turn.js 4th Release is out and amazing

#12

Took ages before I figured out how to flip pages O.o

Agreed. It looks nice, but it has poor usability. I tried common things like clicking the edge of the page, scrolling on my trackpad, and using keyboard arrows, but none of them worked to scroll it.

Having to find and move a scrollbar to move the pages was not immediately intuitive.

Re: Turn.js 4th Release is out and amazing

#13
post #12

Took ages before I figured out how to flip pages O.o

Agreed. It looks nice, but it has poor usability. I tried common things like clicking the edge of the page, scrolling on my trackpad, and using keyboard arrows, but none of them worked to scroll it. Having to find and move a scrollbar to move the pages was not immediately intuitive.

Interesting. The arrow keys worked for me to flip the pages. Google Chrome + OS X.

Re: Turn.js 4th Release is out and amazing

#14
post #12

Took ages before I figured out how to flip pages O.o

Agreed. It looks nice, but it has poor usability. I tried common things like clicking the edge of the page, scrolling on my trackpad, and using keyboard arrows, but none of them worked to scroll it. Having to find and move a scrollbar to move the pages was not immediately intuitive.

Clicking the top corner of the page works for me, as well arrow keys (on Firefox + Linux). It did take me a bit too long to figure out though...

Re: Turn.js 4th Release is out and amazing

#15
Definitely looks nice, but it wasn't all that easy to use with a mouse. I take it you can only flip pages from touching the corner of the page, if anything this makes it less useable on a browser. And do we really need pretend paper on our browsers and devices?

Re: Turn.js 4th Release is out and amazing

#16
If your target market includes people that prefer physical books, make page turning much easier - or more obvious.

You also don't present any good use cases - why would I want to spend $99 on this? What does it do for me that a plain website cannot?

Consider presenting the benefits of your idea using your idea, like you did with the API docs, to demonstrate a practical use case.

Apart from those things - great idea!

Re: Turn.js 4th Release is out and amazing

#19

Why on earth are people trying to hang onto the paper style? I get that publishers don't want to rehash all their print media just for digital downloads, but why do we have to shoe-horn that into some crappy, unneccessary page transition process?

It's only appropriate for the narrow use case of a print designer showing off their book/magazine print work. Otherwise it will be used inappropriately because it's a cool effect and might impress someone who hasn't seen it before.
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