From a1eda32d9856e3ed5e06de73c9bc194f81891697 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Adam T. Carpenter" Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 21:52:56 -0400 Subject: added a bunch and published bad animated page titles --- posts/2020-12-29-antivirus-software-is-a-hack.html | 6 +- ...designers-please-don-t-animate-page-titles.html | 125 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 posts/2021-05-23-web-designers-please-don-t-animate-page-titles.html (limited to 'posts') diff --git a/posts/2020-12-29-antivirus-software-is-a-hack.html b/posts/2020-12-29-antivirus-software-is-a-hack.html index a146953..670bcb6 100644 --- a/posts/2020-12-29-antivirus-software-is-a-hack.html +++ b/posts/2020-12-29-antivirus-software-is-a-hack.html @@ -79,12 +79,12 @@ hack and is virtually useless.

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Web Designers, Please Don't "Animate" Page Titles

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+ If you visit + Express Oil Change's web site, + everything seems completely ordinary until you leave the tab. That's + when the most distracting, broken, annoying example of over-the-top web + "design" rears its ugly head. +

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+ I'm talking about this scrolling page title. In my tab. Constantly + moving from right to left to show me all of the text. It's the only tab + that's "moving" or "animated" and it doesn't stop until you return to + the tab. It's cheesy and gaudy. +

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+ And it's also broken because there are emojis in the page title and the + title is obviously being "scrolled" by some script that's moving + byte-by-byte, so it scrolls halfway through a multi-byte UTF-8 emoji and + for a brief moment there's a glyph error character where a little red + car should have been. Bad judgment and bad programming. Worse than that, + even if it worked perfectly, it's incredibly annoying. +

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+ If you bookmark the tab when it's in the middle of scrolling, you'll + bookmark this weird slice of the text that starts or ends in the middle + of a word or with a random emoji. +

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+ Page titles changing is typically used to notify the user that their + action is needed, such as when a file is finished uploading. In this + case, since the text is constantly changing, the tab is always + in a state of "urgency." Most annoyingly, this causes the browser to + highlight the tab when it's pinned. Even if you click the tab and leave + it, this notification reappears. +

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+ Don't do this. Stop. Get some help. It's distracting. It's the cheesy + "web dev" equivalent of retina scan advertising in Minority Report. Just + make a site that works and looks half decent without slowing to a halt + and stop there please. +

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