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Your site design is cool, but the motion is interfering with readability.

by fusiongyro 14y ago

comex 14y ago
It also lags down scrolling.
- wildranter 14y ago
  On the iPad it even blinks when scrolling. Though, it's a cool design.
  - bhauer 14y ago
    Thanks for saying so, though I will admit I don't actually own an iPad and never tested the design there. Apologies to iPad users. I aim to detect mobile browsers and just disable the background by default on mobile. (Incidentally, on the client side, is using Modernizr's "touch" flag a best practice here? I'm something of a noob.)
haxxorfreak 14y ago
And it makes the fans on my rMBP go nuts
nwh 14y ago
I'm actually having a hard time keeping my eyes on the text. It's almost sickening trying to focus. I hope this developer isn't making content on real websites.
Luyt 14y ago
You are not the only one. I couldn't keep my eye focus on the text due to the rotating background, and closed the website after reading the first two paragraphs.
graue 14y ago
Not only that, it's such a processor hog it makes my MacBook Air fans whir at full volume. I disabled JavaScript on the site, hoping that would make it behave, and got... no blog, only this: > This blog uses a little JavaScript. Nothing dodgy, though, and nothing hosted at third-party sites. Just some jQuery and animation bits. So please, if you'd be so kind, ask Noscript to call off the hounds. Congratulations, those “animation bits”, which you won't let me turn off, make your site unbearably annoying to read.
- xnxn 14y ago
  > which you won't let me turn off In the lower right corner of the site there is the word "normal". Hover over this area and select "stop animation" from the menu that appears. (Not that this excuses any of it. Just saying it's possible.)
  - darklajid 14y ago
    Ahahaha. Hover. On a tablet. (Didn't see any controls whatsoever, but that site happily slowed my FF to a crouch) And that ignores the issue of argueing for more fidelity while making the argument hard to read.

Your site design is cool, but the motion is interfering with readability.

comex 14y ago

It also lags down scrolling.

wildranter 14y ago
On the iPad it even blinks when scrolling. Though, it's a cool design.
- bhauer 14y ago
  Thanks for saying so, though I will admit I don't actually own an iPad and never tested the design there. Apologies to iPad users. I aim to detect mobile browsers and just disable the background by default on mobile. (Incidentally, on the client side, is using Modernizr's "touch" flag a best practice here? I'm something of a noob.)

haxxorfreak 14y ago

And it makes the fans on my rMBP go nuts

nwh 14y ago

I'm actually having a hard time keeping my eyes on the text. It's almost sickening trying to focus. I hope this developer isn't making content on real websites.

Luyt 14y ago

You are not the only one. I couldn't keep my eye focus on the text due to the rotating background, and closed the website after reading the first two paragraphs.

graue 14y ago

Not only that, it's such a processor hog it makes my MacBook Air fans whir at full volume. I disabled JavaScript on the site, hoping that would make it behave, and got... no blog, only this: > This blog uses a little JavaScript. Nothing dodgy, though, and nothing hosted at third-party sites. Just some jQuery and animation bits. So please, if you'd be so kind, ask Noscript to call off the hounds. Congratulations, those “animation bits”, which you won't let me turn off, make your site unbearably annoying to read.

xnxn 14y ago
> which you won't let me turn off In the lower right corner of the site there is the word "normal". Hover over this area and select "stop animation" from the menu that appears. (Not that this excuses any of it. Just saying it's possible.)
- darklajid 14y ago
  Ahahaha. Hover. On a tablet. (Didn't see any controls whatsoever, but that site happily slowed my FF to a crouch) And that ignores the issue of argueing for more fidelity while making the argument hard to read.