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Non-related, but this is the first time I actually like animations that happen while scrolling. I think it has something to do with the fact that I still have control over the scroll on the right.
I still didn't like it. But it's undeniably much better than the usual way people animate their sites.
There's a special circle of hell for places who make "plot-like" illustrations that are supposed to look like data visualisations but are just graphics. It's extremely deceptive. TFA has a bunch of things which look like plots of richness vs cost but are actually just what a statistician would call "totally made-up bullshit"
Your way would ban all the engineerings and most of physics from being created.
I think the author forgot to think about the content and got all invested in the display of their site. Should have just used markdown and spent the saved time looking for actual real data.
instead. And he also uses for clickable images. You can append ".text" to any of his blog article to get the Markdown source; example https://daringfireball.net/2020/10/the_iphone_12_and_iphone_...
This format—with each paragraph fading as you scroll, and large changing images alongside—is borderline unreadable. Somewhat ironic in a blog post that (I think) is about tradeoffs between text and formatting.
Sir, you've reinvented text with images.
My solution is to fork the markdown tool I use to add my own tweaks. Some of the changes I added are:
- Vertical padding: Typically, `---` and `*` get converted to `` tags. I use `*` for `` that has different padding top/bottom.
- Code examples with syntax highlighting.
- Block quotes with class names: `> {.warning}`
- Headers and table rows with support for setting a specific anchor ID: `# Header {#myId}`
- `` tags with CSS URL matching to apply certain styles. For example, match `` tags URLs ending with `#screenshot` will have drop shadow.
