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There is a CSS media query for that: prefers-reduced-motion

Now whether any sites actually make use of it is another matter. Also I don't know how the user would enable it. Perhaps an OS-specific, system-wide setting like dark mode.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

A perhaps more useful tradeoff would be if one could disable a subset of CSS/JS with a simple switch in the settings, so e.g. transition animations are skipped but the webpage is otherwise readable.

I think I have yet to see a webpage that uses animations in a way I enjoy, even when they’re smooth. (The same goes for most PowerPoint transitions and window manager animations...)

I, rather unfortunately for myself I suppose, find most animations on the web or even CPU intensive sites to be... well, quite frankly, piles of shit.

I would opt to stop letting web page authors just mangle my CPU cycles because they've opted to poorly animate an SVG or some HTML element. If anything I'd prefer each got a CPU budget and that was all they could use, unless they request more CPU time from the user, then voila! People who want to be annoyed can be, and the rest of us can go back to "browsing the web."

For most people you can’t get more memory without swapping in your device for a newer one. All mobile phones, all tablets, and a good chunk of laptops have soldered in memory with no expansion possibilities.

Getting a faster CPU is about as difficult as getting more memory for almost everybody, because people need to buy new machines to do so. Either because they own a machine that can't be upgraded (hello soldered ram), or because they don't have the technical skills to do so.

Personally I'd rather wait longer for things to complete than have my whole system grind to a halt because it starts swapping like crazy.