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Canvas vs. SVG vs. Flash
An experiment: Canvas vs. SVG vs. FlashThis experiment was inspired by Jackson Dunstan's latest Javascrip/AS3-Benchmark. The results are quite fascinating, anyway I was looking for a method that...
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Understanding CSS 3D Transforms (CSS 3D – 1)
Bevel, Dropshadow, Gloss and Glow are designers chocolate-bar - everybody knows they should be avoided, but sometimes we can't resist. The biggest calorie-bomb is everything 3-D. Ahhh 3D - think of...
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The Matrix Revolutions (CSS 3D – 2)
This is the second part of a mini-series covering css 3d-transformations. If you missed the first part, you can read it here.Suddenly they were here: with the increasing adoption of CSS3 in modern...
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Fresh from the Lab: CSS3 Text-Warping
I got hooked on desktop-publishing the moment when I attached a text to a path for the first time in Freehand 3. It was magic. Suddenly you could create designs that used to take days or even weeks in...
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Finally! csswarp.js for dynamic Text warping
I proudly present the first version of csswarp.js. This small (<8kb, minified, unzipped) library does the same thing as csswarp.com, but dynamically at runtime, making it possible to warp text that...
View ArticleEverything is Relative. The Art of the Adaptive Image.
This will not be another article about one more RWD image technique. It is a short warmup for a little series of posts I will be writing during the next weeks about some ideas and experiments I'm...
View ArticleThe 4 Slice Scaling Technique for SVG
In my last post I talked about a technique that makes it possible to change the position and relation of an SVGs content on rescale, but keep their proportions at the same time. In this post I will...
View ArticleThe Holy Grail of Image Scaling
In our ongoing quest to find new "liquid" SVG techniques, this post will be about the "holy grail" of image scaling, the 9-sliced scaling grid and how to apply it to SVG images. If you haven't done so,...
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Applying Alpha Channels to JPGs
In this article I will show how to combine the advantages of JPG's high compression rate with the flexibility of having alpha channels like we use them in PNG. Open the demo to see this technique in...
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