It might be beautiful on desktop, but on mobile it's a very limited experience.
this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2023
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Great showcase on how much data your browser is unnecessarily bleeding to every website out there that wants it.
Genuine, non-rhetorical questions: does anyone know why the hell your browser needs to tell the site
- where your pointer is, instead of telling it which elements you clicked and calling a day?
- if the window is active/inactive?
- the relative position of the window in your screen, instead of just its approximate size?
- Hover effects, you often want to respond to the user hoving their mouse somewhere, for instance showing a tooltip.
- Battery/network saving, a site can pause animations or reduce update requests when the window is inactive.
- I cant really think of a good use for this one these days, it was something browsers had in the 90s (not just readonly, websites could move your browser window where they wanted for a while). Maybe its kept for backwards compatibility.
Some ideas:
- for custom elements and general interaction, e.g., custom drag and drop or sliders
- for instance YouTube does this whether to auto play videos or to keep them muted
- i dont know, maybe for layouting things
Fun, but disturbing. Our browsers should not be able to determine so much about our behaviour, IMHO.