Enjoyed the article, but I had to read it using the Clearly extension because the native web page is extremely laggy for me. I'm on a Win8 machine running current Chrome. It seems like such a simple design but hot damn does it chug when I scroll.
I think it may have to do with the fixed 'border' the entire page has. It is interesting though how Chrome chokes and Safari glides, though with choppy repositioning of the fixed border on scroll completion.
I'm glad I wasn't the only person who had that issue. Strangely it works perfectly on the mobile version of Chrome for Android, but it grinds to a halt on the tablet version. This is especially strange as I have a Padfone 2 (phone connects to a tablet dock) , so the hardware is the same, and Chrome just gets relaunched in tablet mode when it's docked. Maybe due to the size of images being served being varied on screen size.
Don't wanna start an off-topic conversation but in spite of being somewhat of a Google fanboy I'm actively using (and have set as default) Safari instead of Chrome on my 2010 macbook pro for any page or site that is "heavy". My usage of Chrome has now shrunk to scenarios that involve heavy dependence on omni-search.