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Comment by rustybolt

6 days ago

"Faster than a humans reaction" time is different from "indistinguishable".

Yeah of course it is different. My wording was not really correct here – I was rather meaning "irrelevant" in context of a user interface

  • I am not talking about usability or accessibility but rather just a nice feeling of using the UI. Of course that is subjective but if I click and it appears as close to zero time perception then to me that is much better than lag and/or animation.

  • Instead of pointlessly trying to convince you how horribly wrong you are, I dare you to interact with any software at 20FPS and report back.

    • That would indeed be pointless because I was originally replying to a single UI interaction, where it doesn't really make a huge impact whether it happened in 2 or 5 frames.

      You're trying to bring in continuous changing of frames here which is obviously perceived differently.

    • This is about input, not visual frame rate. 20 ui ticks per second? For anything but gaming I'm probably good.