[unwind]

Fantastically annoying page design.

Scrolling takes many seconds to just show the next page, with no indication that anything is happening. Just blank blackness.

Then each page requires you to hunt and click little circles with pluses in them, just to show a paragraph or two of copy.

Would it have killed them to just present all the text at once? Perhaps use tabs or some other "normal" solution to the problem of wanting to talk about different aspects of a product? This whole "scroll to begin" paradigm is so annoying, I think the fact that they felt they had to include that little helper just to tell people how to get to the content is an indication that perhaps a better design exists.

Still, I'm glad that there's a robotic vacuum cleaner with better optical bandwidth than humans. I'm sure that's a major selling point in (robotic) vacuums.

(Also, this is a re-post of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8267476).

[nkozyra]

Using Chrome here, it straight up didn't work. After reading the comments, I resized my browser and there it was. Still couldn't scroll using the scroll wheel on my mouse.

Awful, awful construction of this page.

[ginko]

I'm normally someone who complains about this, but I didn't notice anything like that with this page. I see a regular scrollbar on the side and scrolling with the wheel happens as it should.

What system are you using?

PS: Ah, I just noticed that this changes mode when the browser window reaches a certain width. Below that it's quite comfortable to use.

[unwind]

I'm on Firefox 31.0 in Windows 7 Enterprise.

[psychometry]

Yet another site made by a designer who doesn't care how you want to use a website because they know better.

[runemadsen]

Yes, this is terrible. Don't kill my scroll.

[lorddoig]

I was thinking the opposite - navigates on scroll down as I expected and joy-of-joys it's in the magazine style (that has an actual name I forget), but unlike most it doesn't hijack the back button.

[dtaveras]

I have to agree with you - Apple also used this style for their Mac Pro page! http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

[bithush]

Clearly it was designed and tested in IE as that is the only browser that it actually works in. It almost kills Firefox for me.

[prawn]

Worked really well in Chrome/OSX for me. Transitions were a bit slow and it's not how I would build the site, but it did work.

[kekub]

Actually I wanted to state that as well. It works like a charm in IE 8 (Usually no site does, despite HN).

[powertower]

Works perfectly in Chrome for me. I did not experience anything of what the OP stated.

[bitJericho]

Yeah that page was a joy to use. I think you're browser was probably not rendering it. Looked great on Firefox.

[MattBearman]

Don't know why you've been down voted, it worked perfectly for me too - Google Chrome on OS X

[freehunter]

Any page that has a loading screen before showing me the content is a page I don't need to visit.

[sp332]

I agree that it should degrade more gracefully, but I'm curious what platform you're on? I've tried it (the wide HTML5 video version) in Chrome and Firefox on Windows and Linux, and didn't have any trouble.