Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 11/23/05 01:24

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> > "7.3 Until user agents allow users to freeze moving content, avoid
> > movement in pages. [Priority 2]"
>
> That's a particular bad case. It leaves the key concept undefined and uses
> the nasty "until user agents..." condition.

I was thinking of that when I had occasion to visit this URL of
a UK disability organisation: http://www.radar.org.uk/

They must consider that the "until user agents..." condition is now
fulfilled, as far as animated gifs are concerned.

> Useless movement should be generally avoided - for the exact reason why it is
> so popular among some groups of deeziners: it catches attention.

Quite!

> Consider the difficulty of concentrating on something when there's
> something blinking or suddenly moving or just changing in sight.

I usually scroll them outside the browser window if they're getting on
my nerves! But yes, for some people they represent a more serious
hazard.

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