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Never got the hate to these. I think some people just want to feel important by diminishing things they see others diminishing, makes up from not having though
by moralestapia 1y ago
Never got the hate to these.
I think some people just want to feel important by diminishing things they see others diminishing, makes up from not having thoughts of one's own.
This applies to everything, not just HTML obv.
- k1t 1y agoPeople generally hate things that try to steal their attention away from the thing they are trying to focus on. It doesn't matter if it's a scrolling marquee, an animated gif, some Flash, a movie, a popup, a cookie banner, etc... Generally, moving/animated things grab your attention and people find it annoying.
- DoctorOW 1y agoIt's really simple, moving text is hard to read. As an example, turn on the local news (bear with me, I work for a TV station). You'll notice the scrolling ticker is likely simplified to focus on one headline at a time, with more pauses in between.
- moralestapia 1y agoSo, it's bad on web but good on TV?
- DoctorOW 1y agoThe opposite. It's been phased out of TV, (more pauses, less scrolling text) around the same timeframe that it phased out on the web. I threw together a visual comparison: https://gifrun.azureedge.net/video/4e99ff8b27414bbb93c3cc297f421427.mp4 https://gifrun.azureedge.net/video/4e99ff8b27414bbb93c3cc297...
- moralestapia 1y agoWow. Great comparison, thanks!
- xnx 1y agoAs others have said: scrolling text is harder to read than non-scrolling text. Scrolling text is useful in the real world when space is limited. On the web, there is no space limit, so almost no reason for scrolling text.
- moralestapia 1y ago??? What do you mean by "on the web, there is no space limit"? If you're talking about the interface by which we consume the content, I use a screen whose dimensions are finite. What do you use?