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Please don’t do this.

You know it will be annoying.

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On the other hand it’s a great signal that whoever uses that is an obnoxious twat and should be plonked.

Plonked how many times?

Technically, you only need to plonk somebody once.

https://en.everybodywiki.com/Plonk_(Usenet)

We 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!

Didn't worked so well for the Pokémon show.

Pokemon is the most valuable franchise IP on the planet. Maybe it did work well.

Pretty 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.

Uninstall the app? Leave a review, tell the developer.

As 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.)

That’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.

The <blink> tag's spiritual successor.

If you want to opt-out of the second coming of <blink>:

chrome://flags/#force-color-profile -> sRGB

Oh, I bet the author is kicking himself for not including a blinking high-brightness class.

Or better, a blink tag that switches between HDR and non HDR text.

Ain’t no use unless you wrap that bad boy in a <marquee> too.

Have you no mercy within you ... you ... web developer.

I 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.

It’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.

I 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?

I’d assume it’s the display manager dimming sdr content to have sufficient brightness range for hdr content.

> 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.

I think they meant that by making an element brighter than the rest you basically change the contrast and the rest will feel dimmer

On mac the OS remaps the brightness range when HDR content appears. The rest of the content literally and materially dims.

Lol, so one HDR element on a website changes the entire desktop environment to be dimmer? :P Fun implementation.

If your setup runs everything in forced hdr you won’t notice. OSes like MacOS will map sdr making everything look dim that’s not hdr.

Dimming the entire display is not how HDR works especially on OLED phone displays.

If you are not outside in bright sunlight it’s almost certain that your screen is not at its highest brightness in the first place.

All HDR is doing is adding more range between the darkest element and the brightest element.

I.e., if you go to this webpage and set your screen brightness to maximum, the HDR effect visibly goes away because you’re already telling your screen to maximize brightness everywhere. Put the screen brightness at 50% and the HDR effect is visible: the bright parts are brighter.

Just tested it, everything but the bright dimmed. That’s very annoying. On an iPhone 14 Pro…

We haven't had dense interfaces for decades at this point.

Still, even with the best intent what you suggest is still annoying. Okay, you got my attention, i now know what you wanted me to know. Are you going to nag me for all eternity?

> We haven't had dense interfaces for decades at this point

GovTech is still full of them. But B2B/B2C, you're right.

The nagging will continue until morale improves.

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