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Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by mattmanser »

db48x wrote: post #4

Hmm. How many animated favicons have you noticed? I can't think of any...

Toggl use a favicon animation to show when a timer is running or not, but it's as simple as red icon on, black icon off. More distractingly they also animated the title to show the timer, but thankfully there's now an option to disable that.

I find it pretty distracting having anything in my browser titles animated, just catches your eye now and then and breaks my train of thought.

A bit like the annoying ripple effect on buttons and hovers in Google's material, it's excess visual clutter that my brain, at least, decides it needs to pay attention to.

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by mattmanser »

creshal wrote: post #10
db48x wrote: post #4

Hmm. How many animated favicons have you noticed? I can't think of any...

I like using them on my intranet sites, precisely because they're disruptive eye catchers.

And that's precisely why you shouldn't be using them. We developers are some of the worst people at understanding what's actually important and what's not to a user's workflow.

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by erikb »

db48x wrote: post #4

Hmm. How many animated favicons have you noticed? I can't think of any...

1% or so and from my feeling that's way too many. If you haven't experienced them you don't know how f*n annoying it is to have a tab just outside of your vision range to always do something. You constantly move your attention there.

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by kukx »

I wouldn't blame the Firefox team for not fixing it. It's not that they were doing nothing in the meantime. They actually have their hands full with more meaningful changes. When the web stops developing then they will probably have more time on doing this kind of fixes/changes.

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by erikb »

dhoe wrote: post #7

That bug only has 60 comments. Here's one with 600+ comments and 400+ people in CC. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78414

I noticed that one too. I think with flash and co dying this won loses intent as well. Nowadays I have nearly zero websites where this is a problem.

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by bnegreve »

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #8

I have an idea, if you don't like something a site does, stop using it.

I really don't get that logic.

To me what you're saying is equivalent to saying that we should never discuss anything.

Something's wrong with the society? If you don't like it, you can just move to a different country.

How can we possibly improve anything with that mindset?

I know that I'm overreacting here, but I would genuenly like to here comments about that.

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by avodonosov »

bnegreve wrote: post #17
dec0dedab0de wrote: post #8

I have an idea, if you don't like something a site does, stop using it.

I really don't get that logic. To me what you're saying is equivalent to saying that we should never discuss anything. Something's wrong with the society? If you don't like it, you can just move to a different country. How can we possibly improve anything with that mindset? I know that I'm overreacting here, but I would genuenly like to here comments about that.

Your analogy with not discussing anything is incorrect.

IMHO the web sites trying to abuse their visitors by showing animated favicons should be banned from Internet. And of course I am not going to visit such a web site myself.

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