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Comment by wiremine | Hacker News Reader

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

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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.

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