The OS desktop-y simulation is a nice idea, but it makes the site unusable on mobile. Even the video player seems unnecessarily complicated. So unless you have a full screen available to you all day, you're gonna miss out on a lot.
I don't think this is intended to be used on mobile. From their intro/disclaimer: a multimedia experiment for teachers, with the purpose of helping their students truly understand and absorb the events of September 11, 2001.
Also, there were no smartphones on 9/11/2001, it helps with immersion :)
I get that, but even in schools you'd need a monitor at this at all times. Overall it means you limit the audience to a fraction of its potential for what is essentially a gimmick that is not part of the story to be taught (and it's clearly intended to teach). You could easily simulate TV screens on a static page, which is also how most people would have experienced this. I doubt the fraction of people following the news on a Mac was significant back then.
Thanks Pawka, I appreciate the support! I am re-working the interface that the 911realtime.org uses to make it responsive and more modern; you can see it here: http://classicy.ing
We're hoping that by the 25th anniversary, we can have a brand-new experience with more features and stability.
If you, or any other engineers, teachers or computer-savvy volunteers would like to contribute, you can find me at http://keepinghistory.org
Quoting user nyx from the last time this was posted.
>To fix the broken timestamp in the upper right, open your JS console and set timeZone.diff equal to your negative UTC offset. I'm in US Pacific Time, so I ran timeZone.diff = 8
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Obviously this material is not available for everyone. But I'm glad the author created it in a form as it is.
We're hoping that by the 25th anniversary, we can have a brand-new experience with more features and stability.
If you, or any other engineers, teachers or computer-savvy volunteers would like to contribute, you can find me at http://keepinghistory.org
I have a sort of unlisted version of the site that has been used in classrooms and museum exhibits: http://tv.911realtime.org
You can use the keyboard to navigate, and you will probably have to hit the spacebar on first load to get the player to play.
L,S: Louder, Softer -,+: Change Channel M: Mute
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