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This article will explain in detail how the New York Times uses HTML 5 to design online reading products. The content of the article is of high quality, so the editor shares it for you as a reference. I hope you will have a certain understanding of the relevant knowledge after reading this article.

What are the functions of the New York Times?

When you open the New York Times under the firefox browser, it is worth noting that "this website (www.nytimes.com) provides data saved to your computer for offline use." It is easy to infer from this sentence that this is an offline storage function. Users can continue to browse some updated content when there is no network connection for reading products, which is an additional demand satisfaction for users.

Next, let's take a look at the right column in this picture:

Careful people will find that when the mouse hovers, there are solid dots on the right side of some content categories and hollow dots on the right side of some content categories. What does this mean? After experiments, it is found that this is actually a hint of whether there is any content update. The solid dot indicates that there is a content update, and the user has not browsed it; the hollow dot indicates that there is no content update under the current classification. The advantage of this is to give users a reading reminder, which is convenient for users to choose appropriate content to read, saving time.

Click on an article in the list, and then let's take a look at what the terminal page of the New York Times article looks like.

Careful people will find that there is an ICON that adjusts the text size in the upper right corner, while the lower left corner is mainly social communication functions, such as email recommendation, sharing to twitter and facebook. Of course, there is also the function of turning pages up and down.

Martians know that users have different reading habits and show a diversified trend. Let's take a look at how the New York Times solves this problem. It mainly uses custom features to solve this problem. Let's take a look at how many templates the New York Times has for typesetting content.

There are a total of 11 typesetting templates for users to customize, which is another big step forward in satisfying users' diversified reading habits, which focuses on three templates: priority, slideshow and gallery. As the name implies, priority refers to the typesetting method with content heat weight rank, which is the same as the Weibo content weight rank ranking in each newsletter reader on Sina Weibo App Square. All reflect a kind of reading habit of browsing according to the popularity of content. While slideshow refers to grabbing the pictures of the content of the article and displaying them in the form of slides, similar to the flipboard effect which is highly hyped in front-end time. After all, users' perception of pictures is better than that of pure text content. Gallery refers to the way to grab the pictures from the content to form a photo album to organize the typesetting of the article content. Flipboard and each newsletter reader have this kind of typesetting effect. From the aesthetic point of view of the picture, I feel that the picture typesetting effect of each newsletter reader is slightly better. As shown in the following figure:

Where does the content source of the New York Times (online version) come from?

Many people wonder where these different categories of content come from when they see this online reading product. I carefully tested RSS subscriptions on footer, the official website of the New York Times, and was surprised to find that the online content came from these RSS feeds and, of course, the sub-feeds of these RSS feeds. Seeing this, I don't know what good business model you have. Omit N words here. It is worth mentioning that there is a content classification (New York area) based on regional location. Does it have anything to do with LBS? This is left to the viewer to think about.

Third, since it is based on HTML5 technology, how is the reading experience?

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When it comes to the reading experience, we have to say that the New York Times has the function of custom shortcut keys, as shown in the following figure:

The shortcut key function of the New York Times is still very powerful, especially the above page flipping, the first article, and the second article function have brought a good reading experience to users. Domestic online readers like QQ reader and every newsletter reader all have shortcut key functions, but you can keep up with the New York Times.

Generally speaking, online reading products have two core points: first, high-quality content, but a good reading experience, if you can solve the problem of cross-terminal platform, the user reading market is still very objective. Look forward to an excellent online reading product in China.

So much for sharing about how the New York Times uses HTML 5 to design online reading products. I hope the above content can be of some help and learn more knowledge. If you think the article is good, you can share it for more people to see.

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