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!
![CSS vs. JS Animation: Which is Faster?]()
How is it possible that JavaScript-based animation has secretly always been as fast — or faster — than CSS transitions? And, how is it possible that Adobe and Google consistently release media-rich mobile sites that rival the performance of native apps?
This article serves as a point-by-point...
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Kids these days, I tell ya. All they care about is the technology. The video games. The bottled water. Oh, and the texting, always the texting. Back in my day, all we had was...OK, I had all of these things too. But I still don't get...
![Sexy Album Art with MooTools or jQuery]()
The way that album information displays is usually insanely boring. Music is supposed to be fun and moving, right? Luckily MooTools and jQuery allow us to communicate that creativity on the web.
The XHTML
A few structure DIVs and the album information.
The CSS
The CSS...
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Did you know you can triple-heart things on CodePen? We’ve had that little not-so-hidden feature forever. You can click that little heart button on any Pen (or Project, Collection, or Post) on CodePen to show the creator a little love, but you can click it again...
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/