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This is whatever the 2013 equivalent of "requires flash" is.

> HEY THERE! INCEPTION-EXPLAINED.COM IS AN EXPERIMENTAL SITE WHICH USES INTERACTIVE SCROLLING TO ANIMATE THE PAGE. UNFORTUNATELY, AWESOME MOBILE DEVICES LIKE YOURS DON'T HANDLE THAT VERY WELL :( PLEASE DO CHECK IT OUT ON YOUR COMPUTER USING CHROME OR FIREFOX, I LIKE TO THINK IT'S WORTH IT!

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But as far as this is an experiment, I don't see any problem. It would be a problem if this tried to be a general purpose site.

Eh, there was no reason to assume somebodies mobile phone was incapable of scroll. That's just making their decision for them.

It's not that the phone is incapable of scroll, it's that the phone is guaranteed to freeze up and not render the site properly on that page. But, even if the phone could handle the computation necessary to display the site, the author probably did not design a version that is easy to use on tiny screens.

> the author probably did not design a version that is easy to use on tiny screens.

true, but they should let the user be the judge of that, and have a button to allow it to press on and disregard the user agent.

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