gmail does this annoyingly also
Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on
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Re: Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on
#12Way back when I first started learning to build web pages [when HTML4 was just a glint in Tim Berners-Lees eye], it was conidered bad form not to prvide a 'width' and 'height' attribute for an image you were placing on the page. Because if you provided these, the browser would know how much space to leave for the image to occupy after it had downloaded [this was back in the dial-up modem days. So images usually loade…
Every time I'm reminded of this:
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/333/130/835...
Re: Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on
#13I agree. This is the greatest sin of the modern web development sphere. So so irritating.
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#14Same thing happens when error messages push the whole form down. This is annoying when for example I log in to my bank account using 1Password. When 1Password gets focus (and the login form loses focus), the login form immediately complains with an error message saying the fields are required and pushes the form down. When I select my bank login from the 1Password dropdown, I always immediately try to click on the "Sign in" button, which at that point moves up because the error disappears.
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#15A particular bane of mine is the self-oscillating UIs, youtube is particularly bad at it these days - if the mouse pointer is in 'just the right place' (which is bigger than it sounds) then you get the seek-bar preview frames popup, which moves things just enough that the mouse pointer is no longer over the area that triggers it, so it vanishes, and the whole thing starts again.
Re: Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on
#16A particular bane of mine is the self-oscillating UIs, youtube is particularly bad at it these days - if the mouse pointer is in 'just the right place' (which is bigger than it sounds) then you get the seek-bar preview frames popup, which moves things just enough that the mouse pointer is no longer over the area that triggers it, so it vanishes, and the whole thing starts again.
I've always wondered, but figured that there must be, others who find this type of UI quirk (and find it humorous). "Self-oscillating" I like it. Thanks.
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#17How many times have I tapped the lower-left icon in Android and then have the recently-used apps shuffle themselves ahead of opening the desired app?
Copious times.
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#18The gold standard for the web should be: Craigslist
Fast, functional, responsive.
Re: Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on
#19A particular bane of mine is the self-oscillating UIs, youtube is particularly bad at it these days - if the mouse pointer is in 'just the right place' (which is bigger than it sounds) then you get the seek-bar preview frames popup, which moves things just enough that the mouse pointer is no longer over the area that triggers it, so it vanishes, and the whole thing starts again.
That sort of stuff is outright user abuse.
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#20Related to this, here's a pet peeves of mine. When YouTube is buffering a video, it shows a spinner and you can't press play or pause. Usually if something is buffering a lot I'm in a place with spotty internet, so I'd like to pause until I'm somewhere with better Internet. If I say pause, you should not continue playing the video under any condition. I have made my intent clear.