The ability to turn off animations in browsers

I discovered the current mailing list when trying to work out where 
would have been a better home for this, technically off topic, thread on 
the www-html mailing list 
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2013Jun/0000.html>.  The 
thread is pitched in terms of the energy costs of animations, and, 
includes a couple of references to papers giving quantitative energy 
costs for animations and video advertising, although only the client 
side component of the costs.

Even though www-html is essentially dead (bypassed by WHATWG) it 
produced supportive responses from from three or four people, as well as 
one person who didn't believe the premise, and another who repeatedly 
complained that it was off charter and particularly seemed to object to 
social responsibility content on a nominally technical list.  (It is off 
charter there.)

It's actual pitch is slightly off charter for sustyweb, as it is pitched 
in terms of what browser developers  should do.  In practice, I don't 
think there is any good channel to reach those, but I suspect that 
sustyweb's aims are slightly broader than its official, content 
authoring only, charter.  In any case the energy cost statistics are 
relevant to authors.

The only other relevant list would have been the Network Friendly one, 
but that is about battery lifetimes and mobile network bandwidth 
limitations, not about natural resource usage.

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David Woolley
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Received on Sunday, 16 June 2013 11:33:05 UTC