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Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

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Re: Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

#14
Gotta say, I like most of the effects except for the wiggly "membrane" on inputs and buttons: I'd prefer to see the the whole thing jiggle when clicked or focused, rather than a small circle, and to turn off the effect entirely for typing. I suppose it's trivial enough to go into the source, but if there's a cheap and easy way to expose customization knobs like that, perhaps take it as a suggestion.

Re: Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

#15
post #6

I'm having trouble identifying any physics at all in this UI design system.

The library does respect the client-side reduce motion setting (by disabling all animated effects).

Oh, thanks for the hint. I actually don't like this - similarly to dark mode setting detection. But I guess thats more a criticism on the OS preferences not being granular enough.

Re: Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

#18

Cute (and I mean that sincerely, not sarcastically), and I appreciate that it appears to gracefully degrade for `@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)`, but for the demo site, it would probably be a good idea to allow the user to override that without having to change their system settings, or at least alert them that they won't see the animations.

I'm glad I read your comment, I missed that it intentionally gracefully degraded and assumed it was broken, as I'd forgotten I'd set that.
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