Fixing a parallax scrolling website to run in 60 FPS

I recently visited a parallax scrolling website that was just one of thousands of different parallax scrolling websites out there. One thing that I immediately noticed was that the scrolling FPS of that page was really bad. I suspected that there would be room for improvement in their parallax implementation, and I wanted to take …

Pixel Track

Pixel Track is a prototype connected display system. The display uses a mechanical ‘scanning’ based system for updating pixels. This means that the display consumes no power while it remains static. As a side effect, the scanning technology changes the pixel form and the qualities and behaviours of the sign change. The mechanical nature of …

Adaptive Placeholders

See the Pen Adaptive Placeholder by Danny King on CodePen. We’ve seen some floated labels before: when focussing a form field the placeholder seems to move towards a spot above the field. Adaptive placeholders goes a step further by also allowing one to change the text when something was entered into the field. Makes clever …

Multicolor Fonts in the browser

Seemingly out of nowhere, big guys like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe are proposing multicolor font formats, and rushing to have them implemented in browsers and OSes. This sudden interest is not so much fueled by typographers, designers or web developers, but by an unlikely group: teenagers. More specifically: teenagers who demand their communication …

Two Way data-binding using Object.observe()

Object.observe(), part of a future ECMAScript standard, is a method for asynchronously observing changes to JavaScript objects … without the need for a separate library. It allows an observer to receive a time-ordered sequence of change records which describe the set of changes which took place to the set of these objects. Essentially, the article …