Velocity NY is Coming!
O'Reilly's Velocity Conference is quickly approaching -- it's September 15-17 in beautiful New York. As a follow up to last month's post, I wanted to make sure people knew I had 3 more tickets left to give away to this epic front-end performance conference!
In my last post, I asked for links to awesome performance-related articles. I learned a ton and I hope you did too! This time I'm looking for something a bit more interactive! In the comments below, please post a link to an awesome demo. Whether it's a CSS animation or a canvas/WebGL masterpiece, I want to see something epic!
If you entered via the previous post, your entry will be put in the drawing for subsequent ticket giveaways. If you don't want to chance it and want to get a 20% off discount to the conference, use code AFF20 after clicking this link!
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The <canvas> element has been a revelation for the visual experts among our ranks. Canvas provides the means for incredible and efficient animations with the added bonus of no Flash; these developers can flash their awesome JavaScript skills instead. Here are nine unbelievable canvas demos that...
![CSS Filters]()
CSS filter support recently landed within WebKit nightlies. CSS filters provide a method for modifying the rendering of a basic DOM element, image, or video. CSS filters allow for blurring, warping, and modifying the color intensity of elements. Let's have...
![Cross Browser CSS Box Shadows]()
Box shadows have been used on the web for quite a while, but they weren't created with CSS -- we needed to utilize some Photoshop game to create them. For someone with no design talent, a.k.a me, the need to use Photoshop sucked. Just because we...
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As broadband speed continues to get faster, the web continues to be more media-centric. Sometimes that can be good (Netflix, other streaming services), sometimes that can be bad (wanting to read a news article but it has an accompanying useless video with it). And every social service does...
This demo blew my mind. Seeing the solar system in action with nothing but CSS animations and a sprinkle of javascript:
http://codepen.io/juliangarnier/pen/idhuG
Cool collection of patterns generated using only CSS:
http://lea.verou.me/css3patterns/#
Zooming in and out on this periodic table while switching between table, helix, sphere and grid provides such an engaging experience for the user. You may even discover elements you hadn’t heard of by toggling between the different views.
http://mrdoob.github.io/three.js/examples/css3d_periodictable.html
Mozilla’s work with Epic in porting the Unreal 3 engine to JavaScript always impressed me. Having a hard time finding the actual Citadel demo on my phone but there’s a good review with screenshots here: http://www.webgl.com/2013/05/webgl-game-demo-unreal-engine-3-epic-citadel/