Google's HTML/CSS 3D Buckyball • Hacker News Board

noonespecial wrote: post #3

It should come with a warning that its gonna peg a cpu on my macbook with firefox. Google is my homepage. I don't expect to lose half my battery by opening firefox and stepping away for 20 minutes.

Try to upgrade to Chrome - that should solve the issue.

But yeah, it is a little waste full for something like googles home page.

Re: Google's HTML/CSS 3D Buckyball

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Post by zbanks » Sat, Sep 04, 2010, 3:57 PM UTC

arnorhs wrote: post #15

zbanks wrote: post #2

Interestingly enough, they did it with "pure" HTML/CSS, plus 2 images for the nodes & connections. I was a bit surprised that they didn't use canvas, which seems to be all the rage these days. I'm assuming this implementation, however, works on IE.

They did use HTML/CSS for display/rendering of the buckyball, but they also did use Javascript for animation and interaction. Just to be clear.

Yes, sorry.

I meant that they refrained from using canvas/svg/flash.

Re: Google's HTML/CSS 3D Buckyball

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Post by wlievens » Sun, Sep 05, 2010, 10:55 AM UTC

patrickaljord wrote: post #7

wlievens wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> since it's just HTML and CSS I've tried gadgets like this many times (though nothing as cool as that buckyball) and it's been my experience every time. It's slow because it's just HTML and CSS.

Very fast here, chrome on ubuntu.

True, but Chrome is the exception, with it's awesome JS JIT.

Re: Google's HTML/CSS 3D Buckyball

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Post by mgedmin » Tue, Sep 07, 2010, 10:32 AM UTC

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