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Re: Just Scroll

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Post by rogerbinns »

se85 wrote: post #55
rogerbinns wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome on Linux (with 16GB RAM) - works fine. Chrome on Android 4.0 (Galaxy Tab): Takes about 30 seconds and then I just get some text and a picture of the car. Chose 'Request Desktop Site' and it is fairly close to desktop experience. Sometimes you get bits of white page as it brings the images in. Builtin browser on Android 4.1 (not Chrome): I had to request desktop site again. Almost usable. There are always image…

Thats fascinating that Chrome on Android is capable of delivering the desktop experience of this concept even with the limited hardware specs of the Galaxy Tab. I wonder whats so different under the hood of Safari Mobile on iOS 5 vs Chrome on Android 4 to deliver such different results, maybe its a hardware thing with tablets vs phones?

What do you mean by limited? It has 1GB of RAM, a dual core 1GHz ARM processor, and just shy of a megapixel screen. As someone else calculated there are around 30MB of images. Quite frankly this should work out okay. (To my knowledge the iPhone platform tends to be skimpier on the memory. But then again there is less multi-tasking going on to soak up the extra.)

IIRC there was some past differences in iOS versus Android. Something like iOS prerenders the page to series of tiles so that as you scroll around it is really just showing tiles (think of how Google Maps works) while Android has a display list that is culled to the viewport and then (re)drawn as appropriate. But both sides were updating and changing how they did things.

Re: Just Scroll

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Post by Kluny »

People complaining about the scaffolding - oh well. It was probably built by someone who had a bright idea but knows nothing about webdesign and learned it on the fly. But the idea was great! I was delighted - I scrolled through the whole thing, shared it on facebook, then looked up the wiki for the car since the ad was Japanese. I had no performance issues, as I am using chrome on a fast ethernet connection. For someone who doesn't know web design, they did a great job!

Re: Just Scroll

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Post by Kluny »

shuw wrote: post #37

I don't think there is anything special about this "video" ad that lends itself to scrolling. You can take any video (infographic, music video, advertisement) and conceptually scroll through it using a mouse, but what does that gain you? If you could interact with the elements and there was more than 1 dimension of scroll.. then that'd be going beyond.

The thing is, I, and lots of other people, NEVER click on videos, and always click on pictures. It's a weird thing, but it's true.

Re: Just Scroll

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Post by eckyptang »

m72 wrote: post #81
eckyptang wrote: post #77

This works pretty well in IE9 with no noticeable performance problems on a 5 year old machine. Rather scarily, it also works fine on a Lumia 710 as well! I don't care what anyone says - IE is not a stinking heap of poop.

That's because it's been baking out in the sun to the point where the poop is just dried and doesn't really stink anymore.

You can still make houses out of baked poop :)

I'm not sure of the relevance of that point though :(

Re: Just Scroll

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Post by ams6110 »

se85 wrote: post #46

Interesting design concept - but a horrible implementation of it. You can't just go and load a thousand divs and not expect a wide variety of performance issues across all the different platforms. You need to have a tile manager or something behind the scenes the same way that Google maps does, especially when targetting smaller consumer devices with limited hardware specs like tablets and phones. * iOS5 - with an ip…

Safari 6 on a 2.66 Ghz MacBook Pro... jerky

Re: Just Scroll

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Post by madmikey »

sundarurfriend wrote: post #73
madmikey wrote: post #71

In countries like INDIA, the site takes about more than ten minutes to load on an average indian internet connection.

I guess if you include dialup connections in the average? The page load seemed pretty much instantaneous to me on a standard 2Mbps Tata Indicom connection. At worst, I believe the average broadband connection these days would be 512 Kbps, and "more than ten minutes" is still too much of a stretch. Edit: Akamai reports that the average Internet speed in India is 0.9 Mbps: http://www.businesswireindia.com/PressRelease.…

Most of the indians use the traditional BSNL broadband.. of course my smartphone witha airtel 3g , docomo 3g it loads good.. but when i am on my PC,, with that BSNL, things are not so fine my friend..

Re: Just Scroll

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Post by federicoweber »

gavingmiller wrote: post #92
madmikey wrote: post #71

In countries like INDIA, the site takes about more than ten minutes to load on an average indian internet connection.

Of course the goal of this website is to sell cars to Indians out of Japan, so really fail on Nissan's part

That's exactly the point. It's an advertisement page, targeted to a specific demographic target that have access to a fast network connection. It's not something that should be always reliable and usable.

Re: Just Scroll

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Post by se85 »

eckyptang wrote: post #96
se85 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand that IE9 uses the GPU to render the DOM. That would help vastly with things like this, unfortunately it does little for its JavaScript performance, but since this page doesn't seem to execute any JavaScript during scrolling (i think) i guess it's not relevant for this one edge case scenario :-)

I think you're confusing IE9 with IE8.

Nope :-)
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