Many comments about this, so I'll address them here.
We talked extensively with the 18-20 year olds who make up our target demographic and this "scrollytelling" style is their strong preference over the "wall of text" that I and most of my generation prefer.
What your comments make clear is that we need to develop a parallel version that is more less plain text for people who are using a range of devices, for people who have the same reading preferences that I do, etc.
Right now we're entirely self-funded and doing this on spare time but it's clear to me that an alternative version with a very clean CSS layout is the way to go, possibly with a pdf option as well.
I don't want to let versions proliferate too extensively, simply because this is very much a living document. Technologies are changing so fast in this area that many of the examples will seem dated in a year and — while we've tried to be forward-thinknig about this — some of principles may even need revision.
We talked extensively with the 18-20 year olds who make up our target demographic and this "scrollytelling" style is their strong preference over the "wall of text" that I and most of my generation prefer.
What your comments make clear is that we need to develop a parallel version that is more less plain text for people who are using a range of devices, for people who have the same reading preferences that I do, etc.
Right now we're entirely self-funded and doing this on spare time but it's clear to me that an alternative version with a very clean CSS layout is the way to go, possibly with a pdf option as well.
I don't want to let versions proliferate too extensively, simply because this is very much a living document. Technologies are changing so fast in this area that many of the examples will seem dated in a year and — while we've tried to be forward-thinknig about this — some of principles may even need revision.