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The Evolution of the Headphone

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Re: The Evolution of the Headphone

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Post by frik »

garethbrown wrote: post #7
jmount wrote: post #4

Site has a completely unusable user interface.

What's unusable about it? Scroll down or click the arrows.

It doesn't work correctly more than half of the time in Firefox and IE 11 (scrolling, clicking, cursor keys). There is also a transparent red area layering above half of the screen (maybe it's intended and fits the "Beats" headphone, the last picture?). The "1990s" are missing too, with the Sony disc man (portable audio CD player), its ear plugs and the later MP3 CD player.

Re: The Evolution of the Headphone

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Post by peterwwillis »

Why is the entire internet turning into a 21st-century version of Geocities, with every hack web designer coming up with new and innovative ways to piss off users who just want to see some content? Do designers really think users want to be annoyed by some scrolling display? Are they the internet's new sadists, tempting us with interesting content, only to subject us to by badly designed, incompatible, painful interfaces? I still have nightmares about mouseover pop-up boxes. Leave my god damn scroll wheel alone.

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Post by georgemcbay »

yock wrote: post #10

We can argue all day about the use of scroll for navigation, but that would be sad because this is seriously cool.

I'm not sure which part of it was coolest -- the confusing navigation, the poor use of relatively low-res images for a responsive background (they look terrible on a browser-maximized 2560x1440 display), the default-on sound that many pages had (I realize this is about sound, but no webpage should play sound without user interaction [other than just scrolling to the page]), or the fact that it hung/crashed my Chrome tab on the last page.

Re: The Evolution of the Headphone

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Post by blt »

ginko wrote: post #5

Seriously, when will this "scroll for next page" fad be over? This is completely unusable with a scroll-wheel.

I get the feeling that many, many, many of these scrolling sites were only tested with two-finger scrolling on an Apple laptop touchpad. They often feel extremely awkward with a regular scroll wheel.

Re: The Evolution of the Headphone

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Post by radicaledward »

blt wrote: post #18
ginko wrote: post #5

Seriously, when will this "scroll for next page" fad be over? This is completely unusable with a scroll-wheel.

I get the feeling that many, many, many of these scrolling sites were only tested with two-finger scrolling on an Apple laptop touchpad. They often feel extremely awkward with a regular scroll wheel.

I use an Apple trackpad with two-finger scrolling for 70% of my web browsing. I have yet to encounter one of these scrolling sites that didn't feel extremely awkward on it. Maybe the target audience is iPad users? I feel like the behavior might make sense on a tablet.

Re: The Evolution of the Headphone

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Post by lostlogin »

radicaledward wrote: post #19
blt wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get the feeling that many, many, many of these scrolling sites were only tested with two-finger scrolling on an Apple laptop touchpad. They often feel extremely awkward with a regular scroll wheel.

I use an Apple trackpad with two-finger scrolling for 70% of my web browsing. I have yet to encounter one of these scrolling sites that didn't feel extremely awkward on it. Maybe the target audience is iPad users? I feel like the behavior might make sense on a tablet.

On iPad. Was not good. Edit: just rechecked. Nothing scrolls, it's all 'click to continue'.
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