I realize that as a staunch Linux user I'm not in their target demographic, but... wow that website is slightly motion sickness inducing. Is it as bad to scroll through this on a mac as it is on linux? I use a mouse with an actual wheel, maybe they don't optimize for that kind of legacy device...?
Edit: it's also just so hard to scroll exactly to the points where the information is presented. I just mostly end up at points that are meaningless transitions... So confusing...
Mac pointing devices have step-less and inertial scrolling, so the scrolling itself is effortless, but the framerate of the "video" is too low, so it's either not fluid enough unless you scroll like crazy.
I don't think (for me) the issue is how smooth the scrolling is. It's the fact that these animations are there at all. Like... who wants to see these? They add nothing and add huge visual confusion...
I feel like everyone immediately realized what a terrible UX scrolljacking provides when the trend started, but Apple has pressed on despite their (in my opinion) otherwise thoughtful UX design.
If you middle-click and scroll down smoothly, it's a better experience (provided you nail the right speed). However, there's a bunch of text you miss doing it that way.
> Is it as bad to scroll through this on a mac as it is on linux
It is. Despite their investment in desktop hardware (finally!) they completely forgot how to do desktop software. Ten years ago all those animations where buttery smooth even if they were a weird custom "video" code that assembled them out of separate PNGs.
FYI the Studio Display website was outsourced to an agency, and not developed in-house by Apple engineers. Outsourcing rarely improves the quality of software.
Edit: it's also just so hard to scroll exactly to the points where the information is presented. I just mostly end up at points that are meaningless transitions... So confusing...