[gronglo]

> In 99% of cases I do not care at all about the "artistic vision" of the UI designer and in the other 1% of cases (say an in-browser game or some useful data-viz) I could choose to allow the tab to go crazy with my resources.

I'm with you 100%. Although I'd go one step further and say CSS just isn't needed at all, and should be removed from all browsers. Same goes for WebGL (if you want to play a game, download Steam).

This would fix all of your issues and save an unbelievable amount of energy across the planet. Unfortunately people like us are a dying breed!

[groundcontr01]

No css at all is pretty extreme, but I'd be on board with disabling css animations

[valenterry]

That's very very sad. Animations can make UX much better when used correctly.

[7bit]

You can disable CSS in your browser. The fact that you even complain about this tells me that you didn't didable, yet you damned it to be removed. Pretty hypocritical of you.