Check these out:
First, a persistent global header above "Today's headlines in two minutes"; also note the persistent app drawer at the bottom and icons on the side, more about those in a minute:
As you scroll down the page, "Today's Headlines..." scrolls away leaving the global header (which will scroll away momentarily...):
Each of the icons on the side follow you down the page as you scroll; each opens to provide a link to jump further down what is becoming a very long page:
If you decide at any point to share something, that persistent drawer at the bottom slides up:
And if you keep on scrolling down the page, you'll find the rest of the text behind a drawer control, and encounter rich media like videos (which you could have jumped down to by clicking one of those icons on the side):
But we're not done yet... next, you'll discover comments, with more expandable drawers:
And finally, the pièce de résistance, a draggable timeline of videos:
MSN must be testing these features, because in the time it's taken me to write this, they've added two other features: a storm tracker at the top of the article, and instead of the draggable videos, a trending chart of content:
Rich interactive experience, or dynamic templates run amok? What do you think?
