[shabble]

I get very distracted by continuous animation on a page/app that I'm trying to interact with, to the point of just having to abandon meme-heavy articles or posts if every chunk of content is bookended by great flashy looping gifs or similar internet spew.

Even technical or otherwise useful animated gifs showing the evolution of some system or progression through states or whatever, can be both helpful and absolutely obnoxious if it's autoloop forever with no control.

SuperStop for firefox used to at least allow the halting of gif animation in a heavy-handed nuclear option sort of way, as does uBlock 'element zapper' tools, but if the content isn't immediately good enough to warrant those sorts of readability interventions, I'll probably just bounce.

Electron and other native apps are even worse - good luck if you want a more nuanced control of your animation (including things like animated emoji/stickers/whathaveyou) than LOOP FOREVER or OFF.

IMO, just another reason that things like chat services (Slack, say) that force you via TOS to not make your client usage experience less uncomfortable are a blight on the modern computing ecosystem.

[CharlesW]

Hey web developers, do you know about the CSS "prefers reduced motion" media query that allows you to make your site/app more accessible to people like shabble?

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

https://caniuse.com/?search=prefers-reduced-motion