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		mortenjorck on Feb 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web Standards I'm going to have to agree that's a usability gaffe. Peripheral animation that isn't in service of a notification or something else that actually requires the user's attention is, quite literally, only a distraction.

aidos on Feb 10, 2012 [–]

It's worse than that actually - hold your mouse over it and you give the author "Kudos." I find that particularly offensive /rant

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