title: Give my CPU back
lang: en

> I’m not suggesting you shouldn’t make more cool interactive news stories, or use motion in interesting ways. But I’m advocating here for some guidelines to help make your story a better experience for *all* your readers.
>
> 1. Respect the Physics […]
> 2. Remember that We Call Them “Readers” […]
> 3. Ask for Consent […]
>
> […]
>
> If you’re implementing consent at the element level, you can give users the option of reading an *entire* unadorned version of your interactive story: plain words, static images, unanimated charts and graphs. Like the olden days. 
> 
> <cite>*[Your Interactive Makes Me Sick](https://source.opennews.org/articles/motion-sick/)* ([cache](/david/cache/7819c0e1ebcac9233cd503ab866467ec/))</cite>

Somehow related, I read most of my content online using the *Reader* feature of my browser. Not only does it make the text readable (and uniform) from my perspective but it saves quite a lot of CPU too with wasteful animations cleaned up. I control my scroll, gifs are static, the lazy loading of whatever is ineffective and I cannot stumble across angry comments. I’m not that far from [rewriting](http://localisateur.org/) *my* web too: convenient, readable, sustainable.

I’m not even sure who to blame for all that crap. I’m getting old…