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I just stumbled over this take on Chunked Writing. This piece got me thinking: should the dynamic medium that is be both controllable and controlled like this?

I hate when somebody tries to go over my head: if I want to skim, I want to skim. Who are you to decide how I want to read? Are you Goethe? Have you won the Nobel price for literature?

At least, that site stops hijacking the scrollbar and the keyboard and behaving like a proper website once its styling is removed. But deciding to do this it the first place reeks of the "I know better than the user"-philosophy that plagues software in general and the web in particular. Designer hubris at its worst. And I know the profession and their god complex. Well intentioned - most of them at least - but as the saying about good intention goes: the road to hell is paved with 'em.