On 13 March 2012 15:48, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote: > "James Miller" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> >>The phrase in web development is "Progressive enhancement" that used >>to be all the rage at one point. I miss those days... > > Heh. :) So true... > > I miss the days when having animations on a page was actually considered > *bad* style. And when the big thing in web dev was minimizing "page load > (and render) time". Then flash and advanced JS came around and that > conventional wisdom silently flipped around (like a boiled frog), and has > stayed that way ever since. > >
If its any consolation, I still think in terms of page load times and UX in terms of loading. I don't think animations in and of themselves are a bad thing, I think the problem was GIF's and tacky animations for the sake of it. Slide-up and slide-down animations for removal of items and the similar are more subtle, but make things look much nicer that sudden popping. Popping is bad UX in general, even high-graphics games know that now, going more for mosaic fade-ins on the textures instead. -- James Miller
