Brian Kelly said:
>My criticism of anim,ated GIFs is point 3, ergonomics.
[...]
>much against animation on Web pages because it can be so distracting.
>If you are trying to read text on a page your eye is continually
>being drawn towards the animation, which slows down your reading
I agree with this. At first I found these curious objects
fascinating and mysterious, but now they are a just a damned nuisance
- you think the page is still loading and hang around for it to
finish before realising it's just the animated gif.
The throbbing heart DESIRE logo actually made me feel slightly sick
when I first saw it.
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