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Re: Space.js – HTML-driven narrative 3D-scrolling

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Post by bengali3 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 6:35 PM UTC

krebby wrote: post #19

There are ways of doing scroll-based storytelling right but this ain't it. This library does have the right idea that scrolling should be continuous, but if you over- or underscroll the content you get trapped in a weird middle ground of a tween between two states, and it's frustrating to exactly line up your viewport to the content so it's readable. Mike Bostock wrote a pretty good post about scroll-based storytelli…

Heres a great storytelling example from http://bost.ocks.org/mike/

http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china- sea/

Re: Space.js – HTML-driven narrative 3D-scrolling

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Post by Aeolun » Thu, Apr 02, 2015, 1:55 AM UTC

aridiculous wrote: post #17

These comments are very narrow-minded and hostile. This is wonderful execution. It's really hard to create something that's so easy to use. Its API looks surprisingly elegant. As for the use cases and UX, remember that there's many types of projects. This could be used in a way that helps the UX for some kinds of experiences. Just because this would be bad for your work, or the sites you like to go to, doesn't mean i…

I don't question the technical achievement. This is just a prime example of 'Being so concerned with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to consider whether they should.'

Also, even if I were to want to use it, it's too heavily dependent on scroll speed. It's completely unusable on my computer unless I use the down arrow.

Re: Space.js – HTML-driven narrative 3D-scrolling

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Post by Bumbaclotmon » Thu, Apr 02, 2015, 10:11 AM UTC

It isn't as good as this one, that happens to also implement acceleration: http://okmove.tumblr.com/ (and it was made years ago by the folks who designed soylent packaging).