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Please don’t do this. You know it will be annoying.
by jonplackett 2mo ago
Please don’t do this.
You know it will be annoying.
- masklinn 2mo agoOn the other hand it’s a great signal that whoever uses that is an obnoxious twat and should be plonked.
- fjlunky 2mo agoPretty sure Fifth Star Labs’ Sky Guide iOS icon does this. Not the whole icon, just the stars in it. Hiding the app in a folder helps but I’m looking for a better alternative just because of this.
- pbhjpbhj 2mo agoUninstall the app? Leave a review, tell the developer.
- layer8 2mo agoAs a workaround, you can use a home screen shortcut to start the app. But I agree that app developers shouldn’t do this, or should at least provide an option to turn it off. (Some apps allow customizing the app icon color, so it seems that should be possible.)
- fjlunky 2mo agoThat’s a good idea, I haven’t used the shortcuts feature. I think this app also abuses the ability to change the app icon to provide subtle animations - but there’s no option to turn it off or customise.
- telecuda 2mo agoI mean, use it responsibly. Of course people won't, it's the internet, but a skilled designer may use it to highlight a word or an accent to draw your eye. It can be tricky in dense interfaces to draw focus to something (little tooltips or big buttons aren't the best answers). This is just another tool in the toolbox.
- dawnerd 2mo agoIt’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed. It can also take a bit for the os to go back to the sdr state. I’ve had a few cases where safari gets stuck in hdr mode and won’t revert u til I force closed.
- theturtletalks 2mo agoI saw a restaurant on Uber Eats with a HDR enhanced image. The whole screen felt dim but I thought it was just me. How can it dim the whole screen?
- masklinn 2mo agoI’d assume it’s the display manager dimming sdr content to have sufficient brightness range for hdr content.
- embedding-shape 2mo ago> It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed. What are you talking about? I have a HDR display, in Chrome on Arch the literal only change in the submission's demo is the brightness of that particular element, doesn't change anything else on the screen, sounds like you have a broken HDR implementation.
- dgellow 2mo agoI think they meant that by making an element brighter than the rest you basically change the contrast and the rest will feel dimmer
- gerdesj 2mo agoThe <blink> tag's spiritual successor.
- telecuda 2mo agoIf you want to opt-out of the second coming of <blink>: chrome://flags/#force-color-profile -> sRGB
- hyperhello 2mo agoOh, I bet the author is kicking himself for not including a blinking high-brightness class.
- shaky-carrousel 2mo agoOr better, a blink tag that switches between HDR and non HDR text.
- madaxe_again 2mo agoAin’t no use unless you wrap that bad boy in a <marquee> too.
- gerdesj 2mo agoHave you no mercy within you ... you ... web developer.
- madaxe_again 2mo agoWe found that user engagement was substantially increased by making the home page just rapidly flicker between red and green. Some users stared at it for hours!
- danillonunes 2mo agoDidn't worked so well for the Pokémon show.
- HWR_14 2mo agoPokemon is the most valuable franchise IP on the planet. Maybe it did work well.