Tag Archives: animation

Jake Archibald – Rendering without lumpy bits

Right, we’ve got a new project, we have to calculate and draw 500,000 pixels, and the deadline is in 16.67 milliseconds. When we’re done, we’ll do it again, and again. Web performance has always been about delivering those pixels on … Continue reading

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Making Glass Cows

From solid block – to glass cow with milk inside – a quick look at the process. Neat animation! (via jnack)

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Rotating Words with CSS Animations

Cool effect. Lots of manual work though (per word you have to define a delay) — Now, where are those CSS functions and variables? Rotating Words with CSS Animations →

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2D transform’s translate() vs absolute positioning: performance evaluation

Hardware/GPU Acceleration FTW! Why moving elements with translate() is better than pos:abs top/left →

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Web Animations Preview

A brief introduction to some of the concepts in the Web Animations specification — an attempt to overcome some of the limitations with both CSS and SVG animations and unify them at the same time — currently being defined by … Continue reading

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Cleverly animating accordions

Q: How to transition to height:auto;? A: Transition max-height instead! As such: Stupidly clever! (via dropshado.ws)

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Animated GIFs the Hard Way

The Sublime Text Website has some nifty animations to show of a few features. Turns out they’re not animated gifs. One of the criteria was that the animations should work everywhere, from IE6 to an iPad. This ruled out two … Continue reading

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jQuery Transit

jQuery Transit is a plugin for to help you do CSS transformations and transitions in jQuery. Include the plugin and you can use code like this to perform transformations: $(“#box”).css({ x: ’30px’ }); // Move right $(“#box”).css({ y: ’60px’ }); … Continue reading

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Monsters University (Trailer)

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requestAnimationFrame Introduction

Good introduction to working with requestAnimationFrame(). Be sure to also give the aforementioned requestAnimationFrame example a look. requestAnimationFrame — The secret to silky smooth JavaScript animation! →

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