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Ah, those silly number animations where you animate from zero to the desired value. Combine that with a careless form of server-side rendering (though I am glad that all of the rest of the page is correctly server-side rendered with only one or two other minor issues), and this is the JavaScript-free experience:

> Intel® Core® 0 th generation processors

> Ryzen™ 0 processor

> Up to 0 GB 3200MHz memory

> Up to 0 hrs battery life

> Up to 0 GB/s SSD read speeds

And more like them later in the page (like the 0° viewing angle on the 0″ 0×0 display).

Amusing.

(Aside: I wish people would stop doing scroll-linked transitions of any kind for regular content. It just slows everything down for no good reason. Let me see the stuff immediately as I scroll; don’t make it take another few hundred milliseconds until you fade the content in, or a second until you show the correct number.)



It would be nice to see more uptake of CSS’ prefers-reduced-motion. It’s perfect for this exact issue.

Personally I don’t have a problem with scroll linked transitions but the user should have the choice.


Everyone wants to do Apple-like product pages, and no one knows how to do Apple-like product pages. (And in fairness, Apple has forgotten how to do a proper product page, too).


A little more than a decade ago when parallax scrolling was new and seen only on a few websites like apple.com, there was a wow effect. Nowadays apple.com and clones are among the most obnoxious and tiring ad-free websites out there.

Do not hijack scrolling. Use CSS scroll snap if you feel like it, but don't do anything beyond that.

(To be clear, this comment is a tangent — TFA doesn't hijack scrolling. I see the same hilarious 0s everywhere effect though.)


Was the page changed?

While the hamburger menu doesn't work (it should, these can be done in CSS with no need for JS) there appear to be no number animations for me, just the correct numbers.


Same here, maybe one of my "anti-bullshit" extensions is blocking it..


Yes, I sent them a heads up- they nuked it from orbit.


I wonder what influences gimmicks like these have on search machine indexing.




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