[kaba0]

Well, the real world also “animates” everything, you can’t open your fridge instantly, nor can you grab your phone out of your pocket, nor are driving a car has any “instant” motions/happenings.

These in-between states gives us well-needed information and are not artistic at all. Sure, they can be emulated badly, but for example iphone’s app switcher is imo a very natural implementation of how it should be done. Won’t make the action take any more time, but it does instruct on what happens very accurately. Compare it to i3’s instant desktop switching, which gives us barely any info to work with.

[ndriscoll]

With i3, I press mod+n, and desktop n appears. What information is missing that an animation would provide?

This feels like arguing that when we type, the computer should scribble each letter just as we would with a pen, or when a web page loads, it should slowly fill in like it did on dial-up. I want the computer to work as an extension of my brain; it should react as fast as I can think. I want it to show me something, and that thing simply appears as it would in the mind's eye.

[mrob]

The in-between states are already provided by the finite speed of human muscles. When I press a key, it already "animates" up and down. I don't need to add any artificial latency on top of that.

[tetris11]

If you could instantly open your fridge, chances are you would, instead of implementing a needless delay

[hypertele-Xii]

If you wanted to smack your co-habitators in the face with a lightspeed fridge door, sure.

[lapcat]

The whole point of computers and technology is to do things faster than we previously could.

"Instant" is a feature, not a bug.

[kaba0]

Doing work faster? Yes. Communicating with/controlling the computer though is still prone to the same psychological “limitations” humans have.

[tgsovlerkhgsel]

These quick transition animations aren't the ones this spec discusses.

The spec talks about "moving, blinking or scrolling information that (1) starts automatically, (2) lasts more than five seconds, and (3) is presented in parallel with other content"

It's relatively uncommon to encouter this as part of an app or actual legitimate content, but most sites that have ads would violate this spec. And I've noticed that I found those moving elements distracting enough that I just furiously closed a site and gave up on pursuing the information on it when I had the misfortune of encountering a news site on a PC without an ad blocker.

[kaba0]

I didn’t reply to the spec though :D

Of course I’m all for reducing animations, and not even only for accessibility reasons, but I don’t agree with calling all of them useless, when they do in fact have a very important role.

[xigoi]

If you could teleport anywhere you want, would you still drive your car instead?