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Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by gruez »

renewiltord wrote: post #68
gkoberger wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, had to get it out quick so I went simple! Just a single SVG that I shift elements back and forth on, and rotated so it looks like it's floating!

So it's not actually 3-D, you shift, scale, and rotate the 2-D elements so it appears 3-D? Or are you rotating it along Z in some way. It's a really good effect. That's some skill!

>So it's not actually 3-D, you shift, scale, and rotate the 2-D elements so it appears 3-D?

You just described 3d projection, aka how most 3d games display a 3d world on a flat monitor.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

#112

Post by whywhywhywhy »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #82
rebelwebmaster wrote: post #29

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If revenue from Firefox isn't enough to pay the bills anymore, then not funding R&D is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

'revenue' from Firefox was never enough. It's only really just struck me that of course Google funding them made a dependency and 1) made the company grow beyond its needs, and 2) made it not seek self-sufficiency. If Google are stopping the money then FF is like a person with no money taken in by Google and hooked on drugs; once they're kicked out they can't fund the habit and reliance on Google has meant they've no…

>'revenue' from Firefox was never enough

I mean I'm looking at the leadership page and all I can ask myself is do you need to pay that many executives just to build a web browser?

I'd be fascinated to know how much it costs Apple to develop Safari, a browser multiple times more successful than Firefox judging by Wikipedia. Just a hunch but I'd bet money it's a fraction of the cost of running this bloated pseudo-charity.

Best thing for the internet is for current Mozilla to fade out fast and something more sustainable be built from the technology remains.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

#113

Post by gkoberger »

renewiltord wrote: post #68
gkoberger wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, had to get it out quick so I went simple! Just a single SVG that I shift elements back and forth on, and rotated so it looks like it's floating!

So it's not actually 3-D, you shift, scale, and rotate the 2-D elements so it appears 3-D? Or are you rotating it along Z in some way. It's a really good effect. That's some skill!

Yup! Here's the base SVG I started with: https://p195.p4.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/OAuqBqvx/boat.s...

Everything else is just CSS!

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

#114

Post by dboreham »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #100
gkoberger wrote: post #12

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I don't know the details, but the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation have different budgets and legally have to spend the money on different things (since the Foundation is a non-profit). They can't just move money around like a normal company can.

Well... can they fix that? Please? At least for the future so this doesn't happen again? I'm not opposed to nonprofits creating systems to make sure donor money is handled appropriately, but it seems to me there's something seriously wrong with the current structure. In hard times, organizations generally need to focus on their core initiatives, not branch out even more!

Probably would mean paying $$$ tax and/or returning money to whoever donated it.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

#115

Post by rexf »

gkoberger wrote: post #71
Rapzid wrote: post #65

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Curious what tool/tools you used for that if any.

I made the SVG in Sketch and then did CSS transforms (by hand). Normally, however, I'd use GSAP for SVG animations: https://greensock.com/gsap/

That's incredible. Very well done!

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

#116

Post by speedgoose »

ygjb wrote: post #89
speedgoose wrote: post #48

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I thought that people working at Mozilla were passionate about privacy, open-source, trust, and were working at Mozilla for the values. But you say many of them would work to the company with opposite values.

IIRC Facebook has more than 100 privacy engineers (it's been a few years since I spoke to recruiters there). Facebook has challenges, but it also presents an opportunity to work on security and privacy challenges in way that doesn't exist in many places in the world. Interpretations of other peoples values is largely skewed by their perception, and rarely takes into account the practical realities of working on priva…

Considering Facebook's business model, I would guess that these engineers are there for privacywashing (like greenwashing).

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

#117

Post by renewiltord »

gruez wrote: post #111
renewiltord wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it's not actually 3-D, you shift, scale, and rotate the 2-D elements so it appears 3-D? Or are you rotating it along Z in some way. It's a really good effect. That's some skill!

>So it's not actually 3-D, you shift, scale, and rotate the 2-D elements so it appears 3-D? You just described 3d projection, aka how most 3d games display a 3d world on a flat monitor.

Yes, yes. The interesting part is performing the transformations manually without tooling.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by renewiltord »

gkoberger wrote: post #113
renewiltord wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it's not actually 3-D, you shift, scale, and rotate the 2-D elements so it appears 3-D? Or are you rotating it along Z in some way. It's a really good effect. That's some skill!

Yup! Here's the base SVG I started with: https://p195.p4.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/OAuqBqvx/boat.s... Everything else is just CSS!

Very cool, indeed!

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

#120

Post by [deleted] »

riffic wrote: post #13

fyi for the people involved in this: use of a mozilla trademark in a domain name is subject to the mozilla (tm) trademark policy: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/ I hope your project doesn't run afoul of this :)

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