Timeline for Why is sound sparingly used on websites?
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| Dec 21, 2015 at 20:06 | comment | added | David Richerby | I agree that a straw poll of web design types would be against sound. I'm disputing that that has anything really to do with "tradition". | |
| Dec 21, 2015 at 19:37 | comment | added | Chris H | @DavidRicherby, generally speaking you're right. But when dropping a tradition enhances the experience, and people try dropping it, their sites don't lose traffic. Noisy websites have a different effect to graphics-heavy ones. There are of course diehard traditionalists, who use tools like instapaper/readability or have scripts to block YouTube autoplay. Despite my sympathy for this view, I accept that is a minority. But I suggest a straw poll of Web design types would be against sound. | |
| Dec 21, 2015 at 18:02 | comment | added | David Richerby | I don't think that "tradition" is a good argument at all. Traditionally, there was no web at all. Then, there was a web but, traditionally, there were almost no images on it. But, now, images and sounds are both well-supported by computers, and bandwidth is cheap and fast. Yet the "tradition" of having few images has been discarded, while the "tradition" of having little sound has not. | |
| Dec 21, 2015 at 11:27 | history | answered | Chris H | CC BY-SA 3.0 |