It's an animated company logo in HTML5. The standout "feature" is that the page pegs a CPU core at 100%. Turns out that this is because the developer wanted to update the page favicon at 60fps.
In the post, the developer explained this decision:
"I got this idea in my head that it'd be really slick to animate the FavIcon to stay in sync with the logo. I love little moments like that. Others might feel that's frivolous or unneccessary but I disagree - details like that are the little moments that make the difference."
Nothing (short of taking away APIs) will stop developers from coming up with these "little moments" that will burn CPU time and battery to oblivion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9599905
It's an animated company logo in HTML5. The standout "feature" is that the page pegs a CPU core at 100%. Turns out that this is because the developer wanted to update the page favicon at 60fps.
In the post, the developer explained this decision:
"I got this idea in my head that it'd be really slick to animate the FavIcon to stay in sync with the logo. I love little moments like that. Others might feel that's frivolous or unneccessary but I disagree - details like that are the little moments that make the difference."
Nothing (short of taking away APIs) will stop developers from coming up with these "little moments" that will burn CPU time and battery to oblivion.