We have added another way to follow a story, one that makes it easy to track how a story develops over time. Here is a quote from one of our Senior Producers -
“(Backstory is) a quick way to catch up on how a story has developed over time,” explains CNN.com senior producer Rachel Clarke. “Now, when we want to give history, context and background to a developing story, we go back through our archives to find ‘milestone’ events and then link those together in an interactive window.”
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1 Kenny Bunch // Aug 19, 2008 at 3:10 pm
It’s nice to finally see it up. The thing that bugs me a little bit, is that with all of the other elements, layering, and extra processes actually slow it down in some cases and cause graphic artifacts. I had the same issue with the animation of the image gallery, where it caused visible jerks. I haven’t looked into the specifics of the page that are causing it. It is disheartening though that regardless of being optimized from a performance perspective, when it gets thrown in that shell that it effects the experience. Especially given that from a user’s eye they see it as the modules fault and don’t care or know that the shell is the weighted factor.
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