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It worked better for me in Firefox than Chromium.

It's worrying that the US might be doing the same thing but without openly saying it. Little is being done here about the virus. Most people can't get tested. The Senate took a vacation. The Republican Party doesn't want older and unhealthy people depending on social programs. Pray the virus away. Suffering will bring people to God.

"I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people." --Mother Teresa

This is how some people think. It seems like there are no serious people in charge. It's going to be a catastrophe like we have never experienced.

JavaScript, APIs, and Markup.

https://jamstack.org/

This sounds completely dystopian from a privacy standpoint.

It's also the professional's job to convince the boss why their ideas are bad. "This is considered animation spam." or "This is considered a bad practice, but this other way is more effective." or "Our tests have shown that users are annoyed by X."

It doesn't always work, but sometimes it does.

I think there is hope. Ask sites for RSS feeds (especially podcasts, which often forget to link to the RSS feeds). Build interesting new things with it that inspire other people to build things with it. Convince browsers to make RSS friendlier. Mozilla should have Firefox at least tell people what do with RSS when they click the button instead of downloading a raw XML file: "you clicked an RSS feed -- would you like to download this extension to read it?"

> a godsend for those of us who have bosses that want the app, "flashy"

I think that's part of the problem. Clients and bosses often don't know what they are doing and have really bad ideas about "spicing up the website."

It's the new version of what was formerly done with <marquee> and <blink> tags and DHTML.[1]

[1] http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex3/snow.htm

Material Design has many other bad ideas in it too.

Examples: the color suggestions are garish. The idea that a website should simulate physical motion has usability problems for people with motion sensitivity. There is a lack of aesthetic restraint. It encourages gratuitous animation spam, like the ripple effect. It's like a cake where 50% of the cake is frosting.

Some of those things could be fixable, but I think it's unwise for other companies to adopt Google's visual branding in general.