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The Google Chrome comic book

Posted Sep 3, 2008 16:37 UTC (Wed) by johnkarp (guest, #39285)
In reply to: The Google Chrome comic book by jordanb
Parent article: The Google Chrome comic book

My take is that they wanted to give a presentation online, with lots of visual aids, etc. Not a text dump. The 'traditional' way of doing so is to make a powerpoint presentation and dump the slides online, or videorecord some talking head going through a powerpoint. Which are both extremely painful to watch, and don't work well on the web.

I'd say the format they used is about perfect for 'canning' a presentation for online distribution. Sure, they could have edited a presentation into a movie, a la 'An Inconvenient Truth', but you wouldn't be able to print that out, or watch it in most offices without a pair of headphones.

No matter the effectiveness of the medium is though, I doubt there will be much more like this. Most organizations aren't willing to use something so labor-intensive to produce.

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The Google Chrome comic book

Posted Sep 3, 2008 19:38 UTC (Wed) by ofeeley (subscriber, #36105) [Link]

But what's wrong with hooking up the "prev" and "next" link at the bottom of each page to the appropriate page? That way the back button still works and again there's no need for javascript. As it is the presentation is a classic piece of Obtrusive Javascript.

What's the point of writing their own goPage() function in javascript when a browser can already handle previous and next?

I like the comic, I think it's a great presentation, but I'm baffled as to why they've done the above.

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Posted Sep 3, 2008 23:15 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Quite so. Plus, it's not some generic talking head: it's the Chrome
developers. :)