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Ok we get it, Bloomberg, you are writing about drugs. Jeez..
by hello_there_you 11y ago
Ok we get it, Bloomberg, you are writing about drugs. Jeez..
- mmastrac 11y agoSomeone in the creative department got a little too creative on this one. It's actually quite distracting for a reader.
- cpncrunch 11y agoAll the javascript crap going on makes it virtually impossible to scroll.
- Everlag 11y agoActually the color inversion is probably a 'filter: invert(100%)' turned on by js; I tried peeking through the DOM and didn't see it, so I may be wrong. If filter performance is an issue, they could force gpu rendering by applying a 3d transform that does nothing.
- tophtucker 11y agoYou're right, lines 104 & 140 in http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-ketamine-depression-treatment/js/script.js http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-ketamine-depression-t.... Considered the gpu thing but was reading mixed advice (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10814178/css-performance-relative-to-translatez0 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10814178/css-performance-...) and ran out of time.
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- cnp 11y agoKnowledge is power, especially when it has to do with possible treatments for debilitating conditions. Good for them for stepping out of the conventional zone.
- hello_there_you 11y agoThat sentence is very strangely put together. Of course knowledge is power? That doesn't mean this article wasn't visually annoying. Subjectivity, you know.
- cnp 11y agoThat's fine! a) Yes, right, Knowledge IS power, but only when you know about it. Ketamine as a depression treatment is very under the radar. You can only empower people with knowledge once they have it to use. b) You mentioned nothing about "annoying" or "subjectivity" -- you were being snide and unproductive with your "bloomberg talking about drugs jeez" comment, and I felt the need to respond and praise them for going outside of common bounds.
- cnp_is_an_ass 11y agoThe comment obviously referred to the ridiculous and overdone visual effects and imagery that completely ruined any attempt at a serious tone.
- hello_there_you 11y agoMe and you have very different ideas on how to spread knowledge about drugs, let's just agree on that :)
- drzaiusapelord 11y ago...and this is why journalism about drugs is often dismissed. Its incredible how bad the presentation is here. Its almost like someone with anti-drug views saw the article as too positive, but didn't have the science to contradict it, so they ordered it "hippie'd up" to ruin its credibility. Its working, because there's no way in hell I would share this article with anyone considering the presentation. Even if we ignore my little conspiracy theory, my god, randomly going from black on white to white on black is inexcusable. What is this? A geocities page? Thank god for Firefox's reader mode. The web is barely usable nowadays.
- batguano 11y agoI understand why so many people hate the animations and general visual presentation. But I kinda like them. They're so over-the-top goofy that I thought they were funny, in a "Reefer Madness" kind of way. I'll send the article to my psychiatrist mom, anesthesiologist brother, and veterinarian sister, and I expect they'll get a good laugh out of it.
- nashequilibrium 11y agoLooks like somebody took a huge dose of Ketamine! Those graphics are crazy and so distracting.
- kps 11y agoEven though I work on a competing browser, sometimes I really, really love using lynx.
- gunsofbrixton 11y agolynx has competitors?
- eivarv 11y agoIt's like a nineties alternative music video barfed its visual effects all over the page.