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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 5, 2017 6:16PM

On 05/04/2017 23:28, Patrick Dunphy wrote:

> Your description is apt but isn't a horizontal scrolling list essentially a
> carousel?
>
> I guess what I'm wondering is that carousels are generally frowned upon yet
> Netflix uses them effectively where as other high volume video sites such
> as YouTube and Vimeo don't.

The generally frowned-upon carousels are the ones parodied in
http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ ... the sort of thing you'd find on a
page with
5 or 6 slides pointing to different bits of content that management
insisted must
all be on the homepage, and the designer combined into a single carousel
so as to
at least mitigate the problem instead of plastering all that stuff all
over the homepage ;)

The distinction is probably open to argumentation, but I'd still say
that a horizontally scrolling list of items (like movies etc) - possibly
items of the same type? - is technically a carousel, but not the kind
that people have the frowny reaction to.

In short, all good I'd say :)

P
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