Re:Xbox One: The Review
by math0ne on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @03:32AM
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People that make articles like this are freakin' artisans, love the page.
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Agreed. A couple of people here have pointed out that it's broken for them, or they don't like wasted pixels or something (somebody think of the pixels!) - but technical problems aside: this, and the PS4 review change my views of what an online article should be. It obviously doesn't apply to all content, but for a review of next-gen game consoles it really adds a sense of... tactile-ness? I dunno. But they are fantastic!
See the NY Times "Snowfall" article[1] for a beautiful example of this in a wider context. It's a little old now, but was groundbreaking at the time.
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne...
I feel out of touch for saying this, but I found the page visually exhausting. I don't know exactly why - it's partially because the contrast of the text is too low on the white background and partially because I find extremely long pages disorientating, but that doesn't account for all of it.
I'm all for beautiful, elegant presentation, but when it comes to reading a long article I don't want lots of movement and twiddly bits.
I agree. It also causes my fans to spin up which isn't very relaxing.
I was actually impressed with how lightly broken it was. Despite including half a dozen scripts, I only needed to explicitly load one - the first party one - to read the article.
Many sites in this school fall flat without some fourth-party content.
I thought the page was broken or not loading. It showed only a green page. Granted, it is a cool effect but it was really confusing.
Sorry, this is the web, I don't need a fucking splash screen. At least make it so that I immediately notice that the content is there.
My thoughts exactly. Having two and a half pages of empty green before the article seems like pointless insanity to me.
I think you two must be using an older browser that doesn't support SVG properly. The green area contains an animated wireframe of an Xbox One.
No, it started animating just fine. But only after about 5 seconds where it only showed a green page while loading. Which is irritating and lets you think that something is broken.