From the course: Scrollytelling: Creating a One-Page Web Experience
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From the course: Scrollytelling: Creating a One-Page Web Experience
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- [Instructor] In 2012, when the first scrollytelling experience was made, and we usually point to the New York Times Snowfall story, as that first example, someone had to write custom code to make all of that really cool stuff happen. And that's always an option, you can always roll your own scrollytelling library or drop custom code in your project. I'm not going to teach this method because there are too many other options out there that make this unnecessary I think. But if you did want to do it, conceptually you would just have a function that's repeatedly running as the user scroll, something like this window.addeventlistenerscroll,scrollfunk. Literally this is saying, "Hey window, listen for scrolling," and this is built into the browser. And then every time you're scrolling trigger this function that I'm calling scroll funk, and that can be called anything. The window is constantly listening for the scroll…
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