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Re: Allow disabling of motion or animation

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Post by wakeupcall »

lapcat wrote: post #39
wakeupcall wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately it does break a surprising number of websites that just looove animations and in very annoying ways. I was using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-transition... which operates on the same principle. You can try yourself it breaks the google login form. You don't need an account to try: just "login", enter a random address, and watch the password prompt not being enabled as it waits for t…

> I was using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-transition ... which operates on the same principle. This extension doesn't seem to be available anymore.

The github link:

https://github.com/gagarine/no-transition

although it's not the only one (see https://github.com/jnlon/disable-transitions).

Re: Allow disabling of motion or animation

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Post by windexh8er »

soft_dev_person wrote: post #22
makeitdouble wrote: post #13

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> that's your artistic vision > “look at my mad skills” I’m torn about this: there are enough unneeded and horrible animations that I completely understand this point of view of wanted to get rid of all of them. I also see that as throwing the baby with the bath water. There’s also fundamentally useful and informative animations to tell you something changed, what you’re supposed to do with an element or even what ty…

I did this on my Android as well, intentionally. My Galaxy S20 defaults to an animation speed that is just so horribly slow, everything feels sluggish. It also uses more battery. I, too, was a bit confused at the frozen arrow in the beginning, until I realized it was just the loading indicator used when animations are disabled (they could probably improve that one). It is the one place where some sort of movement mig…

Adjusting the animation scaling down is one of the first things I do on any Android phone I buy. I've also changed it for many friends and family who immediately ask how I've managed to make their phones "faster". Not a single person has ever asked me to turn it back. Yet this option is buried in "Developer Tools", so - yes agreed that the "Accessibility Settings" is a far better place. I do also wish it was adjustable in 10% steps all the way down to off. I think 0.3x is likely the sweet spot.

Re: Allow disabling of motion or animation

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Post by kaba0 »

lapcat wrote: post #37
kaba0 wrote: post #20

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Well, the real world also “animates” everything, you can’t open your fridge instantly, nor can you grab your phone out of your pocket, nor are driving a car has any “instant” motions/happenings. These in-between states gives us well-needed information and are not artistic at all. Sure, they can be emulated badly, but for example iphone’s app switcher is imo a very natural implementation of how it should be done. Won’…

The whole point of computers and technology is to do things faster than we previously could. "Instant" is a feature, not a bug.

Doing work faster? Yes. Communicating with/controlling the computer though is still prone to the same psychological “limitations” humans have.

Re: Allow disabling of motion or animation

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Post by [deleted] »

greenbit wrote: post #2

Why does even the thought of 'disabling' animations have to be cast in the context of an accessibility issue? What about those of us that see no need of user interface elements that flollop about doing some kind of 'me Me ME!' dance, when we just want to get things done? I get it, if you're building a webpage maybe that's your artistic vision, and I'm specifically railing on OS animations, but the question still stan…

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Re: Allow disabling of motion or animation

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Post by rroot »

Also on this topic, please stop letting css/viewport dictating weather I see a menu on the left or not.

I'd like to resize my browser window and put it at the side of my screen to use as a reference. Then I usually have to fight with zoom levels to get that menu to disappear!

Even Mozilla is an offender with their otherwise splendid MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Ob...

Re: Allow disabling of motion or animation

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Post by hypertele-Xii »

tetris11 wrote: post #26
kaba0 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, the real world also “animates” everything, you can’t open your fridge instantly, nor can you grab your phone out of your pocket, nor are driving a car has any “instant” motions/happenings. These in-between states gives us well-needed information and are not artistic at all. Sure, they can be emulated badly, but for example iphone’s app switcher is imo a very natural implementation of how it should be done. Won’…

If you could instantly open your fridge, chances are you would , instead of implementing a needless delay

If you wanted to smack your co-habitators in the face with a lightspeed fridge door, sure.

Re: Allow disabling of motion or animation

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Post by ben_w »

LunaSea wrote: post #7
greenbit wrote: post #2

Why does even the thought of 'disabling' animations have to be cast in the context of an accessibility issue? What about those of us that see no need of user interface elements that flollop about doing some kind of 'me Me ME!' dance, when we just want to get things done? I get it, if you're building a webpage maybe that's your artistic vision, and I'm specifically railing on OS animations, but the question still stan…

Just switch to a terminal.

If only websites generally, and mobile phone apps at all, worked on terminals.

Re: Allow disabling of motion or animation

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Post by poisonborz »

You can disable animations on Android by enabling the developer menu and setting animationScale to 0. The whole OS feels much faster and its the first setting I make on a new phone. Some apps ignore this scale, which is a good opportunity to report it as an accessibility bug.

Re: Allow disabling of motion or animation

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Post by aendruk »

rroot wrote: post #46

Also on this topic, please stop letting css/viewport dictating weather I see a menu on the left or not. I'd like to resize my browser window and put it at the side of my screen to use as a reference. Then I usually have to fight with zoom levels to get that menu to disappear! Even Mozilla is an offender with their otherwise splendid MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Ob...

Some sites are comically bad, either needlessly hiding their menu or turning it into a one-column tower that looks ridiculous at full viewport width (half my laptop screen). It took me embarrassingly long to discover the cause of the problem; I’d thought it was just a horrible trend in contrived minimalist design.

I’m tempted to start a gallery a la Plain Text Offenders or js;dr.

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