Fauxfall

This is the beginning of something wonderful.

What is it?

Fauxfall is an attempt to recreate and expand upon the New York Times piece, "Snow Fall" using an Atlantic article and associated rich media. It is proof-of-concept, not a finished product, but, still, it should have an expansive feature set—ideally above and beyond what "Snow Fall" showed was possible.

Just what are these features?

Well, here's a sampling of what we're thinking:

• Highlights and Annotations a la Rap Genius
• Embedded HTML5 video and audio
• A UX that seamlessly supports learning more in the form of Wikipedia-esque "notecards" of further information
• Slideshows
• Quasi-infinite scroll
• Parallaxed/cutout background images

How is it?

JavaScript through and through. Node.js on the back and Backbone.js on the front. CSS3 transitions and transforms, so modern browsers only—not even graceful degradation for IE <= 8. So there. Also, it runs on p 5000.

Who is it?

Fauxfall is the brainchild of @jswest and Karim, who doesn't, I don't think have a Github, with ample support from @gabeisman. @jswest and @gabeisman will be coding the crap out of it.