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85 pointsbrimpa14 comments

Yes. YES. I've been saying this forever, and finally someone has done it.

It's far too common for online "magazines" to simply try to copy its dead-tree counterpart. PDF files, or even the concept of discrete, non-interactive, view-only pages, traditional print dimensions and layouts...

The browser, tablet, and mobile as a medium can out-magazine traditional print, I don't get why everyone is still satisfied with just cloning all of the properties of print magazines into the digital world.

Even the CSS is nicely organized: http://editsquarterly.com/lib/css/edits.iancoyle.css?0.0.0.9

My God... it even has a table of contents.

And the content is still fully accessible if you disable JavaScript and CSS.

Doesn't work for me without JS, it only shows the first page then.

You have to disable the CSS as well. The CSS stylesheet will hide everything except the first page, letting the JS code change visibility when the user presses keys.

If you see the HTML code, all the pages are there, delimited by <article> elements.

Very well done, as a photographer I think the concept is just great. Very inspirational for a web site design.

Even though the effect can be used terribly, I love these scrolling/animating websites. This one is by far the nicest one I've seen too.

Really beautiful. Unfortunately, the scrolling effects don't work on iPhone/iPad, which is too bad, as this would make a really nice format for a tablet-based interactive magazine. I wonder what it would take to get this running in Mobile Safari?

Wow, that is beautiful. Best optical illusion of curved paper I've seen yet too, on the motorcycle photos a few pages in.

Kudos.

Finally! The world needs more creative explorations of the HTML medium.

eclectic format reminds me of original Whole Earth Catalog - articles interspersed with cool stuff. fun to read - kind of like an exploration with new things around each corner.

Awesome, even the scrollbar works as normal.

Excellent. Inspiring. awesome.

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