Rendering modes

[silvester-pari]

The goal would be to have one system for multiple "modes":

• a "simple" page with text, images, interactive maps & charts, maybe with some sections with different backgrounds, parallax effects etc.
• a "paginated" story, where each section is a page, and the user can navigate left/right through the sections, like in a book
• a "scrollytelling" story, where the user scrolls vertically to explore the story

The fourth mode would actually be the raw rendering of the source files (e.g. a markdown story file that looks nice on GitHub), but this is considered a nice-to-have.

[lubojr]

Scrollytelling story should be possible to be horizontal flow as well, I think. Although we consider mouse scrolling as vertical only, I think that on ESA demonstrations on conferences, there is quite often a BIG horizontal wide screen with MASSIVE number of pixels and for this the horizontal movement could be more suitable in quite some cases.

As a spinoff from the paginated story I would also think a grid approach like we have currently in our custom dashboard to be a valid rendering mode. (more sections into one page depending on their side)