How the New York Times uses HTML 5 to design online reading products

What are the features of the New York Times?

To open the New York Times under the Firefox browser, one place to note: "This web site () provides data that is saved to your computer for offline use. "From this sentence it is easy to infer that this is an offline storage function, reading products do not have a network connection situation, users can continue to browse to some of the updated content, for users, this is a type of demand satisfaction."

Let's take a look at the right column in this picture:

Careful people will find that when the mouse hovers, some categories of content on the right side has a solid dot, and some content categories to the right is a hollow dot, which represents what? After the test found that this is not a hint of content updates, solid dots indicate content updates, users have not browsed; The white dot means that there is no content update under the current classification, the advantage is to give the user a reading reminder, so that users can choose the right content to read, saving time.

Click on one of the articles in the list, and then we'll take a look at the New York Times article. What does the terminal page look like?

Careful people will find that the upper right corner of the text to adjust the size of the icon, the lower left corner is mainly social communication functions, such as email referral, share to Twitter and Facebook. Of course, there is the page up and down function.

The Martians know that users ' reading habits are different, that they are diversifying, and how the New York Times solves the problem by using custom features that solve the problem, and how many of the New York Times has templates for content typesetting.

A total of 11 types of typesetting templates for users to customize the choice, this to meet the user's diversified reading habits and a big step forward, which focuses on priority, slideshow and gallery three templates, as the name suggests, priority refers to the Content heat weight rank of typesetting style, this and Sina Weibo application square in each reader in the Twitter content of the weight rank ranking is a truth, all embodies a reading based on the content of the heat to browse the habit; slideshow refers to the image of the content of the article to crawl out to the form of a slide show, Similar to the front-end time to stir fire flipboard effect, after all, the user's perception of the picture is superior to the pure text content; gallery refers to the content of the image to capture the way to form a photo album to organize the composition of the article content, Flipboard and each reader have such a typesetting effect, do not Wrong from the aesthetic point of view of the picture, the feeling of the picture of each reader typesetting effect slightly. As shown in the following illustration: