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Comment by cmelbye | Hacker News Reader

Wow, great article but terribly designed website. Really slow scrolling, confusing layout, not sure what I could interact with and what I couldn't. (Some elements used the "pointing hand" cursor yet indicating I could click, yet did nothing when I clicked.)

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I had the completely opposite reaction: I thought it the layout was excellent. (Although I agree the reaction on the mouse over was confusing).

The page is beautiful, but is designed for a very narrow range of computing devices.

28MB will cost you a fortune on 3g if you don't have a good plan, and the page will be freeze most devices and be unusable on most of the rest.

Might as well have used Flash.

Teehan + Lax is an interactive design agency that does work for multinational corporations. Their site is obviously catered towards clients with big wallets or potential hires. Complaining about bandwidth would make a lot of sense if we were talking about a site catered towards the majority of internet users, like an Amazon, Craigslist, or Reddit. It's like complaining that high end fashion websites don't cater to Internet Explorer 7 when a far greater majority of their users uses view it through iPads or mobile phones.

Have you tried opening the page on a device you consider as worthy of clients with big wallets?.. say, an iPhone, iPad, or top-of-the-line Android?

It completely crashed Chrome on my iPad 3.

Progressive enhancement is a cornerstone of good web design. There is no excuse for this.

Actually, I opened it in Chrome on my SGS3 and experienced no problems at all. The page was snappy and responsive to things like scroll, and it loaded quickly. I actually didn't realize there was any problem at all until I read these comments.

It worked fine on Safari on my iPhone 4S on 3G...

Yeah, worked fine on iPhone 5.

I viewed the site on in Chrome on a rMBP and it looked and loaded just as poorly. There's no excuse for having basic fallbacks or a preloading mechanism.

Works perfectly on my 16GB rMBP with Thunderbolt Ethernet to 100Mbps fibre in central London. Sheesh, what is everyone complaining about.

It's a decent layout if you turn off Javascript.

Reading the site on my smartphone, it was excellent.

Reading the site on my laptop, it was horrible.

That could explain the mixed responses to the UI of the site.

Not to mention the stupid top bar that moved around the page. Websites don't get to have chrome!

I thought the top bar was nifty. It only showed when you scrolled back up. When you scroll back up you might be looking for a way to continue somewhere else, and that's when they show you the top bar with it's menu.

But that's precisely how the new Chrome mobile top bar works, which makes this extra bar very annoying.

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