Just backing away from sites like this is a pain. After scolling down few pages, I need to click back button way too many times just to get back to HN.
The English version is here:
http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en
The way the page has been coded (using anchors) rather than by figuring out which part to display using the scroll wheel directly could be improved.
But form-over-function seems to be all the rage on the web (contrast to say 1995 when this page would have been a much simpler affair without all the eye candy), even if I don't like it. Try looking at the paintings too instead of just being irritated by the scrolling and back button issues.
Wait what? Who is that most people? Maybe most people you know but certainly not most people in the general population.
EDIT: i thought I upvoted you. I was careful with the buttons. But your post is gray so I may have accidetally downvoted. Sorry.
Well, 'most people' not on tablets I guess. Scroll wheels are on just about every mouse now and even mousepads have that functionality.
I think the number of people that realizes that 'page down' also works is shrinking as more and more people move to non-keyboard ways of navigation.
Does the site work on a tablet?
And even using the arrow navigation, the experience seems broken, as it wasn't flying in the art until after I clicked down to the next section. I would see the art flying in, but it was too late, as it was moving down to the next section.