> Everything for the next few years will slowly fade in as you scroll. I don’t know why.
I don’t understand why either. Does fade-in make a webpage more aesthetically pleasing? Or serve a functional purpose like improving readability or increasing conversion? To me it distracts from understanding the content and can even lead to janky rendering when implemented poorly.
2. Others realise that even though it may look stupid, it looks new, so they copy it,
3. It's copied to the extent that if you don't do it, you look dated,
4. The stragglers do the thing too, and now it's not cool any more.
We're at stage 3 now with fade-in scrolling. When Wikipedia does it we'll be at stage 4 and then it will be cool to do whatever Wikipedia were doing 10 years ago.
I don’t understand why either. Does fade-in make a webpage more aesthetically pleasing? Or serve a functional purpose like improving readability or increasing conversion? To me it distracts from understanding the content and can even lead to janky rendering when implemented poorly.