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
Ethan Marcotte@molly0xfff molly i appreciate you
and *yes* https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/110022616524644135
Ethan Marcotte (@[email protected])
okay i love you all but by my math we’ve had a few years of animating in Every Single Block Of Content as the user scrolls down a web page, idk let’s maybe take a minute and look over the data
@beep 
a year later and it's only gotten worse
a year later and it's only gotten worse
Phil Giammattei@molly0xfff @beep it feels very much like a signal for “we spent a lot of money on this site” without conferring any user benefit whatsoever
@molly0xfff the internet’s tagline, right there 😭
Jamie McCarthy@beep @molly0xfff Months ago I started responding by scrolling to page bottom and back up, to get all its animation out of its system. Sometimes this even works
@jamiemccarthy oh no jamie
it meeeeeeee
Jerome (He/Him)@beep @molly0xfff I made every single element on a PowerPoint animate for an 8th grade presentation. This is giving the same energy.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)@jeromechoo @beep @molly0xfff Back in the ‘90s, PowerPoint had an export to web function, which used a load of IE-only extensions to support all of the animations. As a result, IE could do any animation that PowerPoint could do.
I discovered this when ordering from a local pizza place at a friend’s house. He was the only person I knew still using IE and it turned out that what I’d thought was a fairly simple site (with a gratuitous number of background images) had weird transitions on every click. Looking at the page source, we found all of the non-standard CSS bits.
On the one hand, it’s nice that web standards have caught up with proprietary extensions. On the other hand, those extensions were an abomination unto Nuggan.