Speaking of design critique, are young people able to read articles with hilarious animated gifs in them? Because I literally cannot; a pity because the first section seemed promising.
Does Chrome have an extension to control looping gifs? Back in the day, I was able to configure my browser that looping gifs would play only once. I'd love something like that.
Have a look at Gif Jam: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gif-jam-animation-...
But as noted, this doesn't disable GIFs.
img[src*=gif] {
display: none;
}
I see it a lot in articles coming from people who work at Facebook and Google, maybe it's something to do with all that "fun" malarkey that they're allowed, whatever it is.
Setting the visibility / opacity of gifs to 0 by default, but enabling them on hover, with a transition delay, works pretty well.
For animations which are in fact useful, I can see them. For those which aren't, I can avoid them. Finding appropriate transition delays (usually ~0.3s for on hover, 3-6 seconds to revert) is a matter of personal taste.
It's like my own personal "Readable" or whatever the Safari add-on / that-one-site is called. :)
document.body.innerHTML=document.getElementById('content').innerHTML;It's still annoying though (although strangely animated gifs don't bother me)!
The article is actually quite good.
But to be honest, I did hesitate before posting because it was off-topic. However this is HN, not the author's comments section, so I feel it's my prerogative to comment on any aspect of the article not just the content.
Honestly though, I do get kinda tired of looking in the comments to see so much conversation about off-topic things like the color-scheme or background images of the linked site. "Off-topic" is subjective, of course.