Josh Comeau
Software engineer and educator; writes long-form interactive tutorials on CSS, React and web animation at joshwcomeau.com.
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Their wordsIt's been a remarkably successful effort; when a focus area gets added to Interop, it often winds up reaching near-100% support across all major browsers within a year.
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsCSS has become so powerful that there really aren't that many cases where we need to reach for an animation library these days; new APIs like View Transitions, linear(), and Animation Timeline make it possible to do all sorts of stuff without JavaScript.
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Their wordsMy honest opinion is that the tools in this second category aren't worth using. They come with all of the "main thread" baggage we've been seeing in this lesson, as well as bloating our JavaScript bundles, without really offering anything in return.
- 6 weeks earlier
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There is something visually pleasant about an object getting squashed or stretched during motion.
Their wordsthere's something visually pleasant about an object getting squashed or stretched during motion.
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Their wordsUnlike Bézier curves, spring physics are modeled on real-world springs, and the motion they produce tends to feel a lot more natural.
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Most front-end developers have a pretty limited set of skills when it comes to animation.
Their wordsIn my experience, most front-end developers have a pretty limited set of skills when it comes to animation.
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsDevices have gotten much faster and browsers have gotten much more optimized in the years since; even the lowest-end devices ought to be able to handle 14 particles animating at the same time without breaking a sweat.
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Their wordsSo, when should we use sprites? I think the main use case is for things that, well, look like sprites!