Re: The ability to turn off animations in browsers

I'm intrigued by this request. Would you mind sharing your data that shows
how animations specifically produce a significant difference in power
consumption across devices?

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On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Hidvégi Gábor <gabor@hidvegi.net> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm new to this list, but not to the web, I've been working with it since
> 1999. My concerns about the destruction of our environment (thus the
> extinction of species) and the growing hunger for energy (but the lack of
> cheap renewable energy) have led me to ask developers to reduce the
> energy-consumption of the websites we create. This can be achieved by
> giving the users the ability to turn off animations browserwide to save
> energy and time.
>
> Theory
>
> a, Most of our energy resources pollute or danger the environment:
> 1, petroleum is still cheap, but it is going to deplete in our future, and
> it's polluting
> 2, coal is polluting
> 3, solar energy is expensive
> 4, nuclear energy is dangerous because no governments can ensure the
> guarding of nuclear waste for 10 000 years (until then they can be used to
> build nuclear weapons for example by terrorists)
>
> b, Even though the number mobile devices is growing, but the technology of
> battery cells is developing much slower, leading to user inconvenience.
>
> c, Website animations come with two problems:
> 1, they cost energy to render
> 2, many user interactions can only be started only after an animation has
> already finished, so users' time is wasted
> By summarizing these little seconds in global, we are talking about years
> and gigawatts.
>
> Proposal
>
> I propose to make two little additions to the browsers:
>
> 1, a global / per site setting to turn off animations
> This can be done for example by setting the durations of animations to 0
> second
>
> 2, a global variable that can be read to determine of the animation setting
> This can be used by libraries like jQery to set their animation durations
> to 0
> For example it could be read like this:
> if (window.animationsTurnedOff) {
>  (...)
> }
>
> Gábor Hidvégi
> Hungary
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