For example here is another article that has much better scroll behaviour and provides a much better smoother user experience (at least on my machine):
Particularly when the images appear, on the nytimes article text keeps scrolling providing continuous feedback, in the wsj article opacity slowly changes, which is a lot harder to notice, and made me think for a second that the page got stuck, plus forced me to scroll a lot to move the page forward.
I guess the general rule of thumb is that text scrolls up the page as normally as any other website (albeit with perhaps more spacing between paragraphs on image / video dense pages), and images/videos will fade in and out in the background using a fixed position. Then when it's a dense text-only section the image will lock into the top/bottom of the text block and scroll with it.
Still a really good article! Good to see market solutions are developing in response to over-fishing problems.
For example here is another article that has much better scroll behaviour and provides a much better smoother user experience (at least on my machine):
http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-s...
Particularly when the images appear, on the nytimes article text keeps scrolling providing continuous feedback, in the wsj article opacity slowly changes, which is a lot harder to notice, and made me think for a second that the page got stuck, plus forced me to scroll a lot to move the page forward.
I guess the general rule of thumb is that text scrolls up the page as normally as any other website (albeit with perhaps more spacing between paragraphs on image / video dense pages), and images/videos will fade in and out in the background using a fixed position. Then when it's a dense text-only section the image will lock into the top/bottom of the text block and scroll with it.
Still a really good article! Good to see market solutions are developing in response to over-fishing problems.