Browsing through the demo gallery, I become terrified that tools like this will become popular and poorly done animations will begin saturating the web. It look

Browsing through the demo gallery, I become terrified that tools like this will become popular and poorly done animations will begin saturating the web. It looks like a fine tool when used appropriately and tastefully, but that's entirely up to the user. And a long series of Flash-based sites have shown us that there are many people in the world with poor taste. For the last number of years, many of us have been able to shield ourselves from blinking and moving things on the web using some kind of FlashBlock browser plugin or by not installing flash altogether. This leads me to wonder: if this kind of content becomes pervasive on the web, can it be blocked? It may be possible to heuristically identify such content. In the case of Hype, easy enough. (see http://static.tumultco.com/hype/gallery/HolidayCard2/HolidayCard2_Resources/holidaycard2_hype_generated_script.js?89177 http://static.tumultco.com/hype/gallery/HolidayCard2/Holiday... for example) Adobe's product appears to use a div with an easily identifiable naming convention as well. (see http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/resources/movement/movement.html http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/resources/movement/m...) So this is probably a good approach. But part of me thinks this can be addressed at a lower level. Fundamentally what I want to get rid of is things that move of their own volition, rendering useless the adjacent content. Perhaps scripts that perform continuous DOM updates could be stopped?