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A behavior being unchanged for 30 years is hardly user hostile. It's reliable and trustworthy. Like a good tool should be.
by silversconfused 7y ago
A behavior being unchanged for 30 years is hardly user hostile. It's reliable and trustworthy. Like a good tool should be.
- untog 7y agoYou used to be able to press the escape button to stop GIFs on the page. It's not unchanged for 30 years.
- silversconfused 7y agoBrowsers have changed, a lot, in sad and unfortunate ways like you mention here, but the gif format is pretty stable.
- __jal 7y agoAny application that doesn't allow me to stop something from being annoying, will be stopped from being annoying by being uninstalled. If browsers made it such that I couldn't not stop .gif animations (or playing video, or...), I would trash that browser. Bluntly, you do not get to control my computer.
- izzydata 7y agoThe point is that they are more images than videos. They have no possible way to contain sounds so the annoyingness is limited to having unwanted images in your browser. You can tell your browser to block a particular still image. You can do the same thing to block a GIF. You don't need a pause/play feature on a 2-5 second sequence.
- __jal 7y agoNo, the point is control. You have no idea what I need.
- pferde 7y agoIf that 2-5 second animated sequence is smack dab in the middle of an article I'm trying to read, because the author is trying to be "cool" and "in with the internets" by including some popular animated meme macro? You bet your bellybutton that I need to be able to stop it from distracting my eyes from the text. Human sight has evolved to be attracted to movement.