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I realize that as a staunch Linux user I'm not in their target demographic, but... wow that website is slightly motion sickness inducing. Is it as bad to scroll through this on a mac as it is on linux? I use a mouse with an actual wheel, maybe they don't optimize for that kind of legacy device...?

Edit: it's also just so hard to scroll exactly to the points where the information is presented. I just mostly end up at points that are meaningless transitions... So confusing...

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I am on a Mac (M1 Air) and it's not the greatest experience.

Even if it worked perfectly, it's bad design.

Mac pointing devices have step-less and inertial scrolling, so the scrolling itself is effortless, but the framerate of the "video" is too low, so it's either not fluid enough unless you scroll like crazy.

It's laggy on Firefox in in a 2014 MBP as well. I won't blame Apple, this is just the state of web animation with CSS3 and Lottie.

Weird to think that Flash handled this kind of animation seamlessly on browsers 15 years ago.

I don't think (for me) the issue is how smooth the scrolling is. It's the fact that these animations are there at all. Like... who wants to see these? They add nothing and add huge visual confusion...

Flash then wasn't dealing with as high resolution content though

We barely had dual-core processors back then. It's fair to assume that Flash's capabilities would have improved with hardware advances.

I feel like everyone immediately realized what a terrible UX scrolljacking provides when the trend started, but Apple has pressed on despite their (in my opinion) otherwise thoughtful UX design.

If you middle-click and scroll down smoothly, it's a better experience (provided you nail the right speed). However, there's a bunch of text you miss doing it that way.

only seems to look or work "good" when you just scroll by holding down the arrow keys

> Is it as bad to scroll through this on a mac as it is on linux

It is. Despite their investment in desktop hardware (finally!) they completely forgot how to do desktop software. Ten years ago all those animations where buttery smooth even if they were a weird custom "video" code that assembled them out of separate PNGs.

FYI the Studio Display website was outsourced to an agency, and not developed in-house by Apple engineers. Outsourcing rarely improves the quality of software.

This is even worse

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