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Re:In Flight by SamReidHughes on Thursday May 14, 2015 @09:29PM (#9548494)
What interactive elements? All I saw as part of the content were static images, and newspapers have had those for a long time. There were some other illustrations and animations, kind of like the way some children's books have them interspersed among the text, but none of those were interactive either.
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Re:In Flight by flashman on Friday May 15, 2015 @01:50AM (#9549115)
The Times broadly refers to this kind of storytelling as 'interactive' judging by this 2014 showcase: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/29/us/year-in-int...

I guess the underlying question is how they plan to support these web technologies into the future; what's their long-term technical debt in that sense?

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Re:In Flight by jballanc on Friday May 15, 2015 @04:43AM (#9549528)
Given that past coders for the NYTimes have included the creator of CoffeScript/Backbone and the current maintainer of ClojureScript/Om, it seems (at least anecdotally) that whomever is in charge of staffing the dev team is doing a decent job.

Of course, some of the worst technical debt I've had to deal with came from "world-class developers", so this is no guarantee that they won't collapse under the weight of their own code at some point...but I think the odds are at least in their favor.

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Re:In Flight by poppup on Thursday May 14, 2015 @09:59PM (#9548580)
Another poster also referred to the animations as interactive... I guess some people think of animations as interactive.
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Re:In Flight by kzrdude on Friday May 15, 2015 @05:19AM (#9549606)
I see animations that are driven by scrolling. Which you can control and scrub backwards and forwards again. So it's got an interactive element.
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