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I immediately thought of web1.0 sites of 1990-s, with lots of animated gifs floating around. Weird times.
I'm not sure if I should be impressed by this. From a technical standpoint, it seems quite clever and unique, but it also seems like a lot of work just to avoid using a tag.
Yeah it's weird. My web developer side is impressed by the technical detail that go behind it. But my other web developer side asks why the f*ck should achieving a simple video effect on a web page should be this hard in 2012? There is a whole pattern of similar things like this in web that is killing me a little bit every day. Want to center a div on the page? No worries just wrap it in these 5 divs and apply these…
Margin Auto w/ a fixed width
Absolute 50% w/ negative margins
Text-align center parent w/ inline-block display on children
If it was sarcasm, disregard my stupidity.
What I'm really curious about is how those images are being generated. Is there a tool already available for that?
Speaking of Apple website updates, I am surprised that they have never offered a responsive design for their apple.com site where you buy iPhones and iPads. Every app they make is designed differently for the phone or the iPad, but not the website.
Sublime Text was already doing the same with the big animation of its home page: http://www.sublimetext.com/ (you can actually see three animations there, depending if you use Windows, Linux or Mac). What I'm really curious about is how those images are being generated. Is there a tool already available for that?
Sublime's example does highlight a solid usecase for this technique that Apple's example doesn't really emphasize: + JS video compression is still the only way to do this stuff losslessly, which is pretty important for what Sublime is doing.
Keep in mind that Apple outsources a lot of this front-end work to their agency, TBWA/Chiat/Day Media Arts Lab. As a services firm they have less incentive to use standards created by Apple, though I think they do really great work.
Keep in mind that Apple outsources a lot of this front-end work to their agency, TBWA/Chiat/Day Media Arts Lab. As a services firm they have less incentive to use standards created by Apple, though I think they do really great work.
Keep in mind that Apple outsources a lot of this front-end work to their agency, TBWA/Chiat/Day Media Arts Lab. As a services firm they have less incentive to use standards created by Apple, though I think they do really great work.
I was just about to comment asking whether Apple engineers actually did this. For sure this is some cool stuff, but I think it'd be a bummer to say "I work at Apple" and then in response to "oh cool, what do you work on?" say "I work on the iPhone -webpage-"
I worked at Blizzard. On the Blizzard web pages.
Speaking of Apple website updates, I am surprised that they have never offered a responsive design for their apple.com site where you buy iPhones and iPads. Every app they make is designed differently for the phone or the iPad, but not the website.