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Re: Go nuts with CSS3 hover effects

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Post by zwaldowski »

mortenjorck wrote: post #53
lell wrote: post #10

Why is everyone shitting on this in the comments? It's a demo: you can't complain that it's hindering usability or enjoyment of the pictures when there is no context in which you might use it or enjoy the pictures. When I saw this I thought it might be nice for the website of a magazine like vogue or something: some sites are about decoration and style, usability can be at the back of the priorities. Just because it…

Animation is not at all mutually exclusive of good usability. Usable animation makes state transitions clear to users in ways instant transitions never could. The perennial example is iOS: Almost all of the animation is there to guide the user through what's happening when the state changes. Left/right transitions make view hierarchies intuitive to follow. Expand/contract animations spatially establish the home scree…

The one thing I was thinking about while looking at these was how badly one needed to be the alert view "pop" from iOS. Such an aesthetically pleasing effect that gets the UX metaphor across extremely well.

Re: Go nuts with CSS3 hover effects

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Post by Macsenour »

lell wrote: post #10

Why is everyone shitting on this in the comments? It's a demo: you can't complain that it's hindering usability or enjoyment of the pictures when there is no context in which you might use it or enjoy the pictures. When I saw this I thought it might be nice for the website of a magazine like vogue or something: some sites are about decoration and style, usability can be at the back of the priorities. Just because it…

It's a DEMO. I agree with you... nice demo...

Re: Go nuts with CSS3 hover effects

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Post by mike-cardwell »

mike_ivanov wrote: post #63
mike-cardwell wrote: post #19

Wow, they actually are proper CSS hover effects. Worked even though I have JavaScript disabled.

> Worked even though I have JavaScript disabled. This is exactly the problem.

If enough people dislike this, I'm sure somebody will write a "NoTransitions" browser addon, or fork Firefox/Chrome and remove the CSS transitions functionality.

Re: Go nuts with CSS3 hover effects

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Post by ugh »

mattmanser wrote: post #12
kalleboo wrote: post #5

We finally killed Flash and now we get this.

This was inevitable, killing Flash just means you're now not going to be able to disable ads with flash block.

Uhm, that doesn’t even make sense. Why would the death of Flash imply that? You make no sense.

Re: Go nuts with CSS3 hover effects

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Post by tgrass »

andrewfelix wrote: post #21
_frog wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Some sites are about decoration and style, usability can be at the back of the priorities. I'm pretty sure this is exactly the problem people had with flash-heavy sites in the first place.

Style, decoration and usability are not mutually exclusive. As with many disciplines they can co-exist beautifully. Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings wouldn't look much chop if he hadn't taken style into consideration.

Not to undermine the argument, but Wright does not prove the mutual inclusion of style and function. His buildings are notorious for structural problems.
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