Any chance of making static Avatars mandatory? Animated gifs are distracting, consume resources and are 'tacky'.
Ken,Any chance of making static Avatars mandatory? Animated gifs are distracting, consume resources and are 'tacky'.
Yeah, I use Chrome and am aware of that. I posted the other info hoping Ken might use something else. On pages with blinking ads, I sometimes have to resort to using IE just so I can stop them. It really is bizarre how it affects me. If I am reading a wall of text (usually in depth technical details), blinking crushes my reading speed and comprehension.There doesn't appear to be a good solution for blocking them in Google Chrome. The extensions that used to work are reported as non-working now.
Any chance of making static Avatars mandatory? Animated gifs are distracting, consume resources and are 'tacky'.
Thank you - I actually didn't have a solution in Chrome and was hoping you used something else. Now I have one...Thanks Andy. I had to try several to find one that works in Chrome.
Gif Stopper, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gif-stopper/eaebhojnielfeoillcfnbmkgliokndkm
I'm happy now
That's not uncommon, Andy. In fact, some flashing lights can trigger certain types of epilepsy. A friend's son has that issue. In other people, flashing lights can trigger migraine headaches. I have no knowledge of whether animated GIFs can cause either issue, but I do not they can interfere with your eyes' ability to follow text on a screen.Yeah, I use Chrome and am aware of that. I posted the other info hoping Ken might use something else. On pages with blinking ads, I sometimes have to resort to using IE just so I can stop them. It really is bizarre how it affects me. If I am reading a wall of text (usually in depth technical details), blinking crushes my reading speed and comprehension.
Let us know how it works. The comments say that it doesn't work well. Apparently it does what Ken wants.Thank you - I actually didn't have a solution in Chrome and was hoping you used something else. Now I have one...
Seems to work for me also. I press Esc and the animation stops. Might not work with other content types like flash, which is the worst offender in ads.Let us know how it works. The comments say that it doesn't work well. Apparently it does what Ken wants.
I don't think emoticons or animated gifs have been resource eaters of note since we all moved up from 14.4k baud modems.
We have a couple of older machines in the house that this is true on. It isn't the animated GIFs that cause them to be sluggish in general but can have a noticeable impact when you browse a page that has them versus one that doesn't. They scroll static content much faster. But if we programmed everything for the lowest powered machines out there, the site would not be very attractive. Tough to know where to draw the line.Resources are not always band width related - CPU and memory are resources also!
Regards,
Tom Wassack
Asheboro, NC
Resources are not always band width related - CPU and memory are resources also!
Resources are not always band width related - CPU and memory are resources also!
Regards,
Tom Wassack
Asheboro, NC
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I don't think emoticons or animated gifs have been resource eaters of note since we all moved up from [STRIKE]14.4k baud modems[/STRIKE] Pentium processors and 8M DIMMs.
Sorry, couldn't resist. As mentioned - it's tough to decide where to draw the line with old hardware. Even a 5-year-old machine should have no trouble with this site.