Since at least the birth of the graphical web browser, we’ve been used to read webpages vertically, from top to bottom. This has become such a given that it actually feels awkward to scroll horizontally in almost every app (web or desktop) I can remember. Point nr. 3 of this article by Mr. Jakob Nielsen (an article which, let’s face it, I would have never have found if it weren’t for Google) actually states that horizontal web-design is a mistake. But this was written in 2002. (…) more after the jump ›