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by 11eleven 2395 days ago
Side note: I found it quite difficult to read the article with the fast motion animated gifs.

I noticed that animated gifs are increasingly used to "spice up" content, but in reality, their motion is distracting and can make it hard to read the surrounding text. A relevant still image works fine.

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Its extremely frustrating that all the browsers removed the escape key trick.
What was the escape key trick?
Historically, in IE and Netscape/Firefox, pressing escape would pause all gifs. Webkit-based browsers don't have that functionality, though, and Firefox removed it seven years ago.
Thanks for the feedback! I will change them for images. Added the gifs after writing so didn't get that effect.
done!