{"id":161,"date":"2006-01-17T11:24:45","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T09:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/17\/reasons-why-news-scrollers-are-bad\/"},"modified":"2006-04-10T14:38:47","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T12:38:47","slug":"reasons-why-news-scrollers-are-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/17\/reasons-why-news-scrollers-are-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons why news scrollers are bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the most complete list of pros and cons for vertical scrollers. Hopefully we\u2019ll have a chance to discuss that on our next meeting with a client.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/onlinetools.org\/tools\/domnews\/\">\n<h3>Reasons why news scrollers are bad:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>They are tacky, and reek of end 90ies web design<\/li>\n<li>They are annoying attention seekers<\/li>\n<li>They lure designers into thinking they can define the size of the screen, they don&#8217;t, the visitors do, each of them for themselves.<\/li>\n<li> They lure editors into adding far too much content to the page &#8211; hidden is not gone, think of the screen reader and text browser visitors.<\/li>\n<li> Considering &#8220;banner blindness&#8221;, they might be useless<\/li>\n<li> They might cause memory leaks and slow browsing in some browsers on low spec machines<\/li>\n<li>They might confuse visitors with attention deficits or other disorders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Reasons why news scrollers are good:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Clients love them<\/li>\n<li>That other site has them (you know, that really cool, bleeding edge one, the&#8230; what? Bankrupt? Well, it was a cool site though!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinetools.org\/tools\/domnews\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ran <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinetools.org\/tools\/domnews\/\">to it this morning<\/a>, when I was searching for as painless as possible (standards-wise, at least) solution for an information slaughter.<\/p>\n<p>What I like about the <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinetools.org\/tools\/domnews\/\">DomNews<\/a> is that there\u2019s a stop function. Every accesibility savvy developer is a star.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if I could just find a way to explain how those <em>Add to Favorites<\/em> and <em>Make this page my Homepage<\/em> links shouldn\u2019t go into main navigation area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, they are bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}