Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - Multimedia Feature - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Gary Edwards on 05 Jun 13Incredible project exploring new methods of story telling that make full use of an emerging interactive, graphical and multimedia rich, extraordinarily visual Web platform. Awesome use of Web technology and a great story to boot! While the Snow Fall Project is hardly the first Visual Document, it's truly a landmark effort. Hopefully the business process and systems editing tools for Web based Visual Productivity will not be far behind simple Visual Web publication tools. Marbux viewed the source code and pointed out the great efforts that the NY Times had gone to to provide cross browser compatibility. That in turn reminded me just how close the world came to having Microsoft seize the Web and take control of its future. A very close call if ever there was one. Many thanks to Marc Andresssen and the Netscape investors for their heroic efforts to stop Bill Gates and his Microsoft monopoly.