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Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by nfriedly »

franciscop wrote: post #15

Don't use GIFs, use audioless mp4s instead. They can be made to work in the exact same way as GIFs (autoplay, loop or not, etc) but are a fraction of the bandwidth.

If you do this, please make extra sure there's no audio track at all. (Not just silent audio.)

Browsers use the presence of an audio track as the trigger to decide whether or not to prevent Windows computers from going to sleep while a video is playing.

I filed a bug on Firefox, but they consider it to be pretty low priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1684718

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by jonahx »

ichydkrsrnae wrote: post #16

There's a UX problem on mobile. I have to click on something to make the GIF appear. What do I click? A link. Expected behavior of a link is to link me elsewhere, not to show a pop-up GIF, so I'm immediately confused when that happens. I also can't figure out how to make the link actually link. Does it link anywhere? Is it even a link or just Jscript onClick thingy? Do I have to click on the GIF to make it link, beca…

Point taken about making it clearer it's a popup rather than a link but...

> You need drill down pages for these links. If I click one, I expect a page with detailed information, a drill down, not a pop-up summary GIF.

I disagree here and much prefer browsing the summary information with a gif to having to click through every single feature into a new page.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by SavantIdiot »

Here to vote on the "please don't do this" option.

Can you just accordion the indicators in between the rows so that a user can choose to expand?

I find the popup insanely annoying and un-asked for. If I want something, I'll click it, please don't force it on me.

But that's just me.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by gennarro »

SavantIdiot wrote: post #144

Here to vote on the "please don't do this" option. Can you just accordion the indicators in between the rows so that a user can choose to expand? I find the popup insanely annoying and un-asked for. If I want something, I'll click it, please don't force it on me. But that's just me.

Strongly agree. Clicking though these, click off to close it, and waiting for pad the gif would have me off the page in seconds. Not to mention accidental clicks.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by taftster »

SimeVidas wrote: post #135
throwawayboise wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do they work if the user has disabled autoplay in browser media settings? This is one of the first things I do when setting up a browser.

I’m curious, would you disable GIF autoplay if the browser’s settings offered it?

Yes please.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by [deleted] »

codemonkey-zeta wrote: post #111
antoniuschan99 wrote: post #91

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another option would be using this ⓘ User will click/tap and the modal of the gif will show

I'm a big fan of this solution, and I've used it quite a few times. Ideally I would like to use drop downs where possible like GP describes, since a > icon (or similar) before some text unambiguously indicates how to get more information, but sometimes the implementation is non-obvious. I've had issues when my data is tabular (like this pricing page). Where should the drop down appear? Sometimes you have a 3rd party…

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Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by Groxx »

mceachen wrote: post #47
gpvos wrote: post #35

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In what way does Firefox block them? If you mean they don't autoplay: that is how it is meant to be. Please do not annoy your users.

They may have tried to open arbitrary mp4s and had Firefox not render it. Firefox seems to only render MP4 files that use yuv colorspace and aa3 audio channels, which require specific ffmpeg flags during transcoding. It took me a day of grinding whackamole to find the magic set of arguments to make all recent, popular browsers actually display a video: https://github.com/photostructure/photostructure-for-servers...

Possibly a useful doc for ya then: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/V... . And beyond that it depends on the OS, so windows/linux/mac/ios/android/etc will all vary.

Some of this is also probably due to using ffmpeg directly, tbh. It's very happy to produce irrational combinations of things that are technically allowed by specs but not implemented anywhere in practice, often exacerbated by it trying to preserve metadata / colorspace / etc where technically possible.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by jrockway »

ubercore wrote: post #137
toast0 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were there mandatory prescriptive federal guidelines on HOV lane line colors when California introduced carpool lanes, or did they only come after California had been using yellow lines? Personally, I do find yellow lines are a stronger border, but then I grew up in a culture of yellow carpool lines. I feel like white lines are almost always ok to drive over, and yellow lines usually aren't (although yellow dotted li…

I think it's because yellow is supposed to indicate traffic moving in the opposite direction. That's why it's a stronger signal (in theory), but not "correct" for an HOV lane moving in the same direction.

California should have closed the lane once a year for one minute to run a single vehicle down the carpool lane in the wrong direction. Then they could justify that the lane marking was the right color (since in theory, the lane can be reverse-flow at any time, and hey sometimes they even do it).
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