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by purpleturtle 12y ago
Similarly, I recently built a real-time animation tester. It accepts the full range of CSS properties: http://codepen.io/julianshapiro/full/oHaCy/ Useful for understanding the difference between properties an
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Velocity.js now works without jQuery (Stripe OS Grant)(julian.com)
2 points by purpleturtle 12y ago|0 comments
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
Absolutely. Fantastic suggestion. It's on my to-do list now. Thank you.
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
It's actually supposed to, but there's a bug. Thanks for pointing this out. Fixing now... Fixed.
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
I'm about to start using Ember, and I can't wait to dive into liquid-fire. Thank you so much for putting this together, Edward. As for micro-typographic rules: You'll find that a simple way of accomplishing this is to use Bl
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Lettering.js has a slightly smaller footprint and aims to be a dead-simple "wrap spans around each letter/word in the HTML element I point you at." Accordingly, it discards your HTML then dumbly spl
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
In case you're unaware: Font Bomb is a (gimmicky) solution for literally "blowing up" text. Blast.js, in comparison, is a robust text parser for real-world typographic manipulation.
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Show HN: Blast.js separates text for typographic manipulation(julian.com)
49 points by purpleturtle 12y ago|19 comments
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Treat Open Source Like a Startup(hacks.mozilla.org)
22 points by purpleturtle 12y ago|2 comments
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
It's generally considered bad practice to overwrite existing functions that other code relies on -- you can never be sure that your replacement is 100% compatible.
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
Yep, I authored an article on CSS vs. JavaScript performance here: http://davidwalsh.name/css-js-animation
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
GSAP is awesome. They proved to me that Velocity was a worthwhile pursuit.
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
Exactly right -- Velocity is a jQuery plugin and jQuery UI/CSS transitions replacement whereas Famo.us is a full-fledged app framework built around a physics engine. As for a performance comparison, their demos have crashed my phone. S
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
Thanks for the heads up. Julian.com is currently hosted on GoDaddy -- so nothing would surprise me :) Switching to AWS later in the week.
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
I agree. The issue is the DOM. (For contrast, I've seen highly performant 3D worlds rendered in the browser via WebGL that don't bring my computer to its knees.) We've been layering on years of HTML/JS additions that are
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
Transit doesn't incur much overhead: https://github.com/rstacruz/jquery.transit/blob/master/jquer... Either way, there'd need to be some sort of chaining implementation for the sake of the demo
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
You misread my quote entirely. If you read further down the article you're referencing (davidwalsh.name/css-js-animation), you'll see an example of how Velocity caches values between consecutively chained calls. THAT is an ex
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
Yep, Transit is super small. Velocity still gets quite small though -- about 7Kb when zipped. As for Transit's tearing and banding at high element counts -- that is indeed the performance bottleneck of CSS transitions shining through.
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
I so thoroughly circumvented their CSS and animation codepaths that they would have to house a lot of redundant code to incorporate Velocity. But a boy can still dream :-D
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by purpleturtle 12y ago
I provide a direct comparison against Transit in the top-right corner of the documentation.
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Show HN: Velocity.js – Accelerated JavaScript animation(velocityjs.org)
160 points by purpleturtle 12y ago|49 comments
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by purpleturtle 13y ago
These are the types of comments that will soon disappear thanks to the magic of Pending Comments™.
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by purpleturtle 13y ago
Here are his "thoughts on freedom" -- pulled from his FB page: https://www.facebook.com/notes/ross-ulbricht/thoughts-on-fre...
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by purpleturtle 13y ago
This is a Computerphile video. You can find the rest here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile/videos Really fascinating interviews with luminaries.
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by purpleturtle 13y ago
The problem is that public outrage never amounts to effective activist action unless people can physically see the government's oppression -- that usually stirs people up. With Internet spying, nothing changes -- we just now know what