I spent many hours trying to pick something to render all the graphics (including the static ones). What renders graphics fast and can update quickly? A browser, of course. The Chrome Skia and V8 engine are heavily optimized for graphics rendering, and HTML5 has matured to a point where you can do advanced graphics like this.
Probably the strangest use of CSS I’ve seen but it seems to do the trick quite well.
A good example by Chris Coyier of how a mix of responsive design and mobile specific pages can work together for a better user experience.
Amazing animations for typing text into and input field. Runs a bit slow in Firefox and is slightly jumpy in Safari on desktop and mobile but runs very well in Chrome.
Here’s the features from the accompanying blog post:
- Supports input (type text) and textarea form elements
- Add effects to each letter being typed / deleted
- All effects are highly customizable via CSS
- Default effects are CSS3 hardware accelerated
- Tries to simulates real input / textarea as much as possible
Neat little collection of user styles removing the most unimportant parts to focus on the content of a few popular websites.
Good news:
For now IE 10 is an optional update, though Microsoft will be adding it as a silent background update for IE 9 users in the next few weeks.
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