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Chrome 74 Arrives With Less Motion Sickness, New JavaScript Features (venturebeat.com) 60

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Google today launched Chrome 74 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The release includes support for a reduced motion media query, private class fields, feature policy improvements, and more developer features. You can update to the latest version now using Chrome's built-in updater or download it directly from google.com/chrome.

Motion sickness in the browser is a real thing. Android provides an accessibility option to reduce motion whenever possible, as shown above in the âoeremove animationsâ setting. Chrome is now taking that a step further so websites can limit motion sickness when viewing parallax scrolling, zooming, and other motion effects. Chrome 74 introduces prefers-reduced-motion (part of Media Queries Level 5) that allows websites to honor when an operating system is set to limit motion effects. This might not seem like a big deal today, but it could be very useful if websites start abusing motion effects.
Check out the full changelog for more information on this release.
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Chrome 74 Arrives With Less Motion Sickness, New JavaScript Features

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  • by Zontar The Mindless ( 9002 ) <plasticfish@info.gmail@com> on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @08:05AM (#58482390) Homepage

    > but it could be very useful if websites start abusing motion effects.

    s/if/when/

  • by stevegee58 ( 1179505 ) on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @08:18AM (#58482442) Journal
    Hooray! I may switch back from Firefox!
  • by Anonymous Coward

    This might not seem like a big deal today, but it could be very useful if websites start abusing motion effects.

    Maybe I missed something, but wouldn't the same websites that are abusing motion be the ones who would have to implement a prefers-reduced-motion version? I would think that anyone who is aware of and takes the time to implement prefers-reduced-motion very likely isn't abusing it too much to begin with...the people who are abusing it are the ones who go out of their way to make sure you can't turn it off (for advertising and other reasons).

    • the people who are abusing it are the ones who go out of their way to make sure you can't turn it off (for advertising and other reasons).

      Accessibility in media queries could be the first step toward "We gave you a way to make your web application accessible to viewers with disabilities. Use it or we'll take action." It could start with naming and shaming. If that doesn't work, watch Google's DoubleClick division bankroll the next National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corp. [wikipedia.org] against websites using competing ad networks that don't respect accessibility features.

  • by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @08:49AM (#58482566)
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    • '... but it could be very useful if websites start abusing motion effects.' so you're saying any day now?

      I'd guess that google sites may be the first to start abusing motion effects. It would annoy those with non-google browsers. It's a part of google's effort to lock up the web. Unlike Apple's Walled Garden, google looks to be moving towards a Walled Prison.

  • by Anonymous Coward

    That gives me the most sickness. I click on a text field but as soon as I do it takes me somewhere else because they meant to put a banner there. Happens all the time on wikipedia. Most of the time I have to click on the search field 3 times to finally get the keyboard up and cursor at the right place.

  • Blah blah blah: "that allows websites to honor when an operating system is set to limit motion effects."

    Blah blah blah: "This might not seem like a big deal today, but it could be very useful if websites start abusing motion effects."

    It's a ridiculous legacy system based on pushing the responsibility onto as many people as possible. The people who build browsers should build accessible browsers - not create hundreds of opt-in edge cases.

    Your browser should read the web how you like it. If you ex
  • I never really liked Chrome's UI.. and when FireFox changed things to try and be more Chrome-Like I opted out with the PaleMoon fork.

    I finally kind of made my peace with FireFox by implementing a bit of UserChrome.css and with a few extensions.. but Chrome is still too .. Chrome-y for me and I use it when my ad-blocked/noscript blocked/flash blocked PaleMoon and/or FireFox won't let me use a site I really need to use.. It's kind of my "ok, I need to use this site and I trust it enough to be willing to foreg

  • Can it handle cuntyquotes (awithahatonandanumloutTMfuckknowsisitcyrillic)

  • Ãoeremove animationsÃ

    Is there a client-side fix for this BS? Not being able to handle extended chars was kinda funny back in 1998 but at this point it's ridiculous.

    • It would be pretty easy to write a user script that did a search and replace on the body for the telltale signs of Slashdot being pathetic, and removed them.

    • by Misagon ( 1135 )

      Back in 1998, the problem was slightly different.
      The web defaulted to using ISO-8859-1 as character set, but MS Windows used an extended variant of that had the left-and-right quotation marks. Microsoft's web tools happily added those, which made web pages look bad everywhere but on Windows.

      Nowadays, the web defaults to utf-8 ... But modern browsers and tools are very well aware of different character sets.
      If Slashdot's admin would just put configure the servers to set the HTTP header field Content-Type: te

  • Motion sickness in the browser is a real thing.

    I think there's a Dramamine [wikipedia.org] app for that. It'll fix your browser right up.

  • Does Chrome 74 still allow to disable Click Tracking? Check out https://www.bleepingcomputer.c... [bleepingcomputer.com] for your next privacy failure.
  • ...that allows websites to honor when an operating system is set to limit motion effects.

    Allows to honor? Yeah, that worked out really well for Do Not Track.

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