I'm beginning to get sick of websites hijacking the scrollbar. Is there a way to disable it? When I tried to scroll down, it kept freezing/locking up and began to flash rapidly as Safari tried to scroll down and the JavaScript forced it to scroll up. While this makes for a cool demo, please don't use this in production, it can impair user experience.
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#12One of the few things worse than a website full of pretentious garbage is a website so full of pretentious garbage that I can't even tell what it's promoting.
Do you read German? I've only taken a bit, and it's pretty clear that it's an advertisement for various fonts that they're selling.
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#13looks great, but now my index finger hurts
Interesting, I've always used my middle finger for the scroll wheel.
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#14looks great, but now my index finger hurts
Click the middle mouse button. Move the mouse down slightly. The more you move it down, the faster it scrolls.
No need to hold any buttons.
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#15On one hand I think this is an innovative presentation, and I enjoyed the creativity. Also I like fonts. On the other hand, (and this is a critique of scrolling/parallax navigation in general), as a user I always feel like I'm doing this wrong. It feels like I'm a cameraman with one of those old-timey hand-cranked movie cameras from the Charlie Chaplin days where the skill was in keeping the shutter speed constant bu…
I think parallax can be an effective way of presenting information on a page (easier to scrub than video, more cohesive than a slide deck and more lively than a static page).
But here I think they overdid it. There is too much going on, I can't tell where I am, and I have no idea what I'm supposed to get out of it. (Probably doesn't help that I don't remember much German from high school, but even then I'm not sure the actual text content would be all that helpful).
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#17On one hand I think this is an innovative presentation, and I enjoyed the creativity. Also I like fonts. On the other hand, (and this is a critique of scrolling/parallax navigation in general), as a user I always feel like I'm doing this wrong. It feels like I'm a cameraman with one of those old-timey hand-cranked movie cameras from the Charlie Chaplin days where the skill was in keeping the shutter speed constant bu…
I think parallax can be an effective way of presenting information on a page (easier to scrub than video, more cohesive than a slide deck and more lively than a static page). But here I think they overdid it. There is too much going on, I can't tell where I am, and I have no idea what I'm supposed to get out of it. (Probably doesn't help that I don't remember much German from high school, but even then I'm not sure t…
There is a longer texts at the end of each of the three distinct sections, informing you about the specific font you just saw, as well as its included features.
You can skip between these sections be clicking on the little markers on the right.
All the other text is there to show you the fonts and their features in action, be it ligatures, be it international diacritics or different font weights.
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#18On one hand I think this is an innovative presentation, and I enjoyed the creativity. Also I like fonts. On the other hand, (and this is a critique of scrolling/parallax navigation in general), as a user I always feel like I'm doing this wrong. It feels like I'm a cameraman with one of those old-timey hand-cranked movie cameras from the Charlie Chaplin days where the skill was in keeping the shutter speed constant bu…
It is a fad, let's face it. That's not to say that it isn't pretty and it is great to experiment but we don't really colour the scroll bar pink anymore.
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#19Hah, at this point, why not just make a video?
i remember seeing at least one other font trailer way back in the day, but this is the only one that i can remember a url for
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#20One of the few things worse than a website full of pretentious garbage is a website so full of pretentious garbage that I can't even tell what it's promoting.
Do you read German? I've only taken a bit, and it's pretty clear that it's an advertisement for various fonts that they're selling.
I read zero German and it was obvious.