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For God's sake man, don't leave a huge, fast gif infinitely looping where I can see it while trying to read your blog post. Make it activate after I scroll down to a certain point, or on hover, or anything that doesn't make me feel like I'm trying to read through a strobe light.
For anyone missing the WW reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvr1T1sFvEg
A 1.2 MB blog post complaining about bloat.
To be fair, the vast majority of that bloat is due to ~~the picture of her face~~ hidden GIFs on the page. Some testing reveals that the page, minus ~~her~~ those pictures, is 159KB.
If you were anything like me on my first data plan (a whopping 25MB/month) images are usually the first thing to go.
For God's sake man, don't leave a huge, fast gif infinitely looping where I can see it while trying to read your blog post. Make it activate after I scroll down to a certain point, or on hover, or anything that doesn't make me feel like I'm trying to read through a strobe light.
I'm still waiting for the Chrome extension which loops gifs only when I hover on them.
It works by taking a screenshot and layering it over the page until you try scrolling or hit Escape again.
(And to be totally honest, if the author took that constraint seriously this page would be different as well.)
But in that world, things would be less pretty and less flashy, and that stuff means more to people than they would care to admit.
It's annoying enough to warrant using Stylish to override the web font.
Why are GIFs in articles a thing? Can anyone focus on the words while they are looping in the corner of your eye? I always open the inspector and delete the elements, but it is annoying to do that every time.
Why are GIFs in articles a thing? Can anyone focus on the words while they are looping in the corner of your eye? I always open the inspector and delete the elements, but it is annoying to do that every time.
I have had the exact experience in the last month. Being on a slow connection, I've come to loath web fonts. There is nothing wrong with them in general but it's just that they've come to symbolise over-indulgence and a myopia towards the users actual task-focused needs as opposed to aesthetics. Part of the issue is dealing with progressive enhancement as far as slow internet connections go. How do you solve that pro…
> Would love an attribute on script and link tags that could be conditional based on connection speeds.
Takes me back to the days when you would choose between an HTML version of a site, or a heavy Flash version. :)