Molly Whitei am so over the web design trend where every piece of text on the page has to animate in
web devs spent years agonizing over time to FCP only to now make people wait for their unnecessary animation to finish before visitors can actually read anything
Neia masks@molly0xfff Yeah, I use uMatrix to prevent sites from using CSS or javascript — originally when every site decided we only needed text weight to be at homeopathic levels and ultra low contrast, but I've managed to mostly escape this drek.
It's terrible.
It's terrible.
Vertana@molly0xfff It does cut down on animations, so there can be a perceived performance increase.
@vertana this is the site with prefers-reduced-motion. a responsible web dev would eliminate the unnecessary animations IMO
@molly0xfff Wow. I don’t think I’ve actually seen a website respond to the reduced motion setting from the OS. This looks (and probably feels) much better with reduced motion.
Christian Kent 𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥@molly0xfff @vertana I wouldn't mind this as the default, and (what you ask) no motion for the preference as set.
TBH there's some far farrrr worse stuff out there that bothers me 20x as much. Anything that reflows while I'm reading it — because a banner reloaded at the top with different sizes — or pretty much anything that delays the moment I can begin reading, just to load data.
Those sorts of things are "does not work as designed" whereas the OP is pointing out things that are annoying when working as designed. Two separate fights.
Greg Brooks@molly0xfff I was going to respond with that site that is super fast with no javascript ~”this site is really f’ing fast”, but web search is so completely broken today that I can’t find it.
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Johan Sköld@rhoot @molly0xfff that’s it! Thanks
MHLoppy (has moved!)@keyboardg I think you're talking about these:
https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/
(which I was beaten to :( )
Yrjänä Rankka 🌻@keyboardg @molly0xfff Yes a year or two ago I almost lost my lunch when I saw someone wrote about that ”new” fancy thing called ”server-side rendering.”
Made in DNATho, I gotta admit, be cool if all corpos switched over to GeoCities and late 90s design.