[HN Gopher] History of the Greek-Persian Wars: Interactive Map a...
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History of the Greek-Persian Wars: Interactive Map and Timeline
Author : nonoumasy
Score : 80 points
Date : 2022-08-03 12:46 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (history-maps.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (history-maps.com)
| Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
| Nice idea, but the app autoscrolls every few seconds on mobile
| Firefox making it unusable.
| nonoumasy wrote:
| Not sure why it's autoscrolling. I haven't seen that issue
| before and also the play feature is disabled on mobile. Which
| phone and os do you have? I'll try to reproduce the issue.
| Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
| I think this happened when I pressed play. Also works the
| same on Desktop. Smetana's music is nice, but the resource
| becomes unusable as it scrolls and scrolls to new chapters.
| In can record a video of you want.
| nonoumasy wrote:
| Sure that would be great if you can record it. But how are
| you able to press play on mobile Firefox. I hid the button
| on mobile. Are you accessing that using Firefox dev tools?
|
| Btw, it's suppose to autoscroll on Play. That is the
| feature. Its what I call the 'storyteller mode'. I am
| thinking of using text-to-speech to read each event before
| proceeding to the next event so the 5 second delay is an
| arbitrary setting for now.
|
| If you don't want the autoscroll, then you can just scroll
| the old fashion way on the sidebar. When you do the map
| will flyTo() the corresponding event.
| Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
| I just press the "play" button right in the center, music
| starts playing and everything starts jumping around. Try
| this link for video:
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| https://www.dropbox.com/s/nq0y4mywomv5vd1/20220806_024731
| .mp...
| nonoumasy wrote:
| Thanks. I saw the video. Yes! That is what it's suppose
| to do when you hit 'play'. But you don't get that view on
| a real mobile device. The menu icon is also hidden on
| mobile. You only see this view on dev tools.
|
| The play feature is only if you want the events to
| autoscroll for you and its part of a storyteller feature
| I'm working on. So you don't have to use it to scroll.
| Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
| > Yes! That is what it's suppose to do when you hit
| 'play'.
|
| Well. I don't think it is a good idea. In text-based
| content, you need to wait for some input from the user
| that he's done reading this part of the page and is ready
| to proceed further. And in your case, the page scrolls
| _extremely fast_. I 'm no slow reader, but I barely
| manage to read the chapter headline before it scrolls.
| nonoumasy wrote:
| well then, the solution is simple. Don't click 'play' and
| like I said, Users on mobile won't even see that 'play'
| button.
| [deleted]
| n8cpdx wrote:
| Very cool project, but as others have said there are performance
| issues even on high end devices.
|
| Full disclosure: I work for Esri, a competitor to Mapbox.
|
| This probably could have been implemented more quickly and
| easily, with better usability and performance, via StoryMaps or
| ArcGIS StoryMaps. The product is tailor-made for exactly this
| sort of website/project.
|
| https://storymaps.com/
| kensai wrote:
| It is good, but given today's interactive capabilities I somehow
| expected more. Still well done!
| nonoumasy wrote:
| What other things were you expecting?
| pazimzadeh wrote:
| -searching text
|
| -scroll without hovering over the text itself
|
| -not having to wait for each section to load when scrolling
| spyremeown wrote:
| Very cool! I'm getting some performance issues though (mb air
| 2018). Pretty low FPS.
| nonoumasy wrote:
| thanks for the feedback. are you gettng the issues just on the
| story page? or also on the main home page?
| rendang wrote:
| Nice info, but where's the scroll bar?
| Calavar wrote:
| Scroll bars are Web 1.0 garbage.
| BbzzbB wrote:
| Definitely missing some Web 3.0 treasures like a Metamask
| connection and microtransactions for each event displayed.
| UberFly wrote:
| Fine then give me some web 3.0 scroll bars.
| lagrange77 wrote:
| Even though it's pretty invasive, i love the image onclick
| fullscreen display along with the clicking sound.
| nonoumasy wrote:
| btw, why do you think it's invasive? in what sense?
| nonoumasy wrote:
| Thanks. I'm still rethinking that. It was a quick solution to
| show the images especially the otherImages(which are
| predominantly other map images) full screen. There's value in
| seeing the details up close. But I might try a different
| design, maybe a carousel in the future.
| COGlory wrote:
| Cool idea, but not very well done. Basically the map zooms into
| one spot and then tells you about a bunch of other places that
| were involved that the map doesn't pan to.
|
| Also, the timelines are overlapping too much, for example it says
| something happened, then moves locations and says some other
| thing previously happened (that it just told you about).
|
| Finally, lots of little things thrown in at the end; "the Ionian
| revolt happened and Persia spent time and effort conquering them.
| [3 paragraphs] Also Persia was mad at Athens for helping which
| kicked off the war". Not built in a very narrative or easy to
| track way.
| brudgers wrote:
| Curious if there is a better implementation?
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