Who says splash pages have to be vertical? YouRad.io's horizontal splash page.

For me, the vertical scrollbar in my browser is a visual cue that I have the ability to scroll using the scroll-wheel.<p>If the news page hadn't explained that using the scroll-wheel will scroll the page horizontally, I wouldn't have known to try it.

Horizontal scrolling is annoying, and it's becoming sort of a trend... I've seen this in a few sites in the past few weeks, including the redesigned MySpace.<p>It's confusing and it doesn't add anything to understanding or experience. One of those things that you <i>can</i> do, but probably <i>should not</i>...

Cool as a proof of concept- realistically I'd be stunned if this didn't punish your conversions.<p>The scrolling experience was klunky, and because of the way it cuts off text, you're forced to completely load the new frame and drop all context from the last..

And who says my boxers have to be worn <i>under</i> my pants? No one said that. But I still wouldn't do it because it just doesn't look right.

In chrome android, the background image moves with the text, leaving a white background.

It doesn't scroll as smoothly as a vertical scroll in firefox for me.