The President's Plan to Reduce Gun Violence

I get an invalid cert diagnostic.<p>You attempted to reach www.whitehouse.gov, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as a248.e.akamai.net. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of www.whitehouse.gov.

Not to get too political, but as a progressive who generally supports gun control, can someone explain to me why an "assault weapons" ban keeps coming back? Based on the metric of political capital:lives saved, it seems like <i>terrible</i> policy.

It's very clever but doesn't really do anything for me.<p>The first time I hit the space bar I get text rendered over an image, and it's hard to read.<p>Further page-downs trigger the video, but there's no obvious place to look for what's causing the sound since the video is not centered on the page. It's off to the side, and either close to the top or the bottom of the screen.<p>It's much like someone handing something to you to read, and then as soon you try to read it they start talking to you.<p>Video keeps playing even if I've moved further down and the video is mostly off-screen.<p>I appreciate people trying to do something a little more engaging but it's not done well enough here to offset the annoyances. It distracts from the content.

I must be the only person in the world who hates autoplaying video and particularly audio. At least the President's voice is normal and inoffensive, not like some of the preroll ads which run on other sites and autoplay.

I wonder if this use of very advanced web technology is calculated to limit who can view their message. Perhaps they only want affluent, urban, technically savvy liberals to view their message, while excluding lower income rural people who use IE 6. This may seem like a paranoid theory, but the Obama campaign would certainly have the data and expertise to support such an effort.

I think it's great that page content is getting more love lately, e.g., this and the recent NYTimes snowfall article [1].<p>Based on choppiness when scrolling, it does seem however that browsers still have a way to go in performance. I look forward to when scrolling a page like that is as smooth as butter on any device / browser combo.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/</a>

Auto-playing video is weeeeird.

What PR agency does the poster work for? Their 42-day old account has many many submissions, all for mainstream publications.

Takes a long time to load for me, and it's a bit jerky.<p>I often feel like all these HTML5 effects are not needed to convey the message.<p>(However, it's cool that the videos start playing on the scroll event.)

HTML5 effects mixed with XHTML doctype? Oh noes!

Astonishingly annoying.

The "poster"s for the three talking-head videos about halfway down are enormous .png files when they should be tiny .jpg files.<p><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/shootings/ANNETTE.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/shootings/ANNE...</a>

Astonishing bit of HTML5? If you want to see astonishing HTML5 work go to <a href="http://www.chromeexperiments.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chromeexperiments.com/</a>. The Obama administration has done far better and astonishing web work than this piece.

I imagine I will get a good bit of downvotes for this but I would not mind if the Government took away all the guns.

An astonishing bit of HTML5 that doesn't work well on the latest version of Google Chrome, unfortunately.

It's impressive! Come on, the white house doing something technologically modern? That's amazing!

"Astonishing bit of HTML5" in that it's choppy and does things I don't want?

It's more like an astonishing piece of propaganda ; )<p>Meanwhile drones are happily killing lots of people on other continents and that is ok.<p>Because the state has the monopoly of violence.<p>And it is slowly trying to disarm its own citizens as to be sure that the day people realize they're governed by an oppressive government they won't be able to do anything about it.<p>How many deaths in 2012 due to complication related to obesity? How many due to guns? How many due to road accidents?<p>Find your priorities and pick up the good fights. The ones taking away the only thing preventing a dictatorial government from being impossible to revolt against ain't one of them.