Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[James Miller]

On 13 March 2012 15:48, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
> "James Miller" <james at aatch.net> wrote in message
> news:mailman.576.1331604546.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>>
>>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.

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James Miller