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Re: Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web

#11

Post by tredre3 »

38 wrote: post #3

> Throughout the years, apple consistently delivers great design. They seem to always define (or at least popularize) a new trend, which then storms the world and everyone copies it To the loss of everyone. This is the same company that introduced disappearing scrollbars, just one of many dumb design decisions. What modern design seems to forget, is that at the end of the day, people actually want to USE the interfac…

Disappearing scrollbars on the desktop is the bane of my existence. Gnome is unusable to me for this reason (it can be worked around but it doesn't always work and I don't want to fight my OS).

Re: Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web

#12

Post by sebtron »

jsheard wrote: post #8
bastawhiz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It also had noticable lag on my Pixel 6 Pro, which while not super new, isn't exactly a low-end device.

The performance is terrible for me too and I'm using last year's Snapdragon flagship, it feels like it's dropping to something like 15-20fps when scrolling. God help anyone trying to read this on a lower end device.

It is readable but painful on my 7 year old mid-range Android phone.

Re: Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web

#13

Post by larrysalibra »

jsheard wrote: post #8
bastawhiz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It also had noticable lag on my Pixel 6 Pro, which while not super new, isn't exactly a low-end device.

The performance is terrible for me too and I'm using last year's Snapdragon flagship, it feels like it's dropping to something like 15-20fps when scrolling. God help anyone trying to read this on a lower end device.

Silky smooth on both a two year old Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (Xiaomi 12) using both Chrome and Firefox and on a iPhone Pro Max 15 using Safari. Might be some other problem with your phone?

Re: Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web

#14

Post by jsheard »

larrysalibra wrote: post #13
jsheard wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The performance is terrible for me too and I'm using last year's Snapdragon flagship, it feels like it's dropping to something like 15-20fps when scrolling. God help anyone trying to read this on a lower end device.

Silky smooth on both a two year old Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (Xiaomi 12) using both Chrome and Firefox and on a iPhone Pro Max 15 using Safari. Might be some other problem with your phone?

It seems the issue is specific to Firefox for me, if I switch over to Chrome it's perfectly smooth.

Strange that Firefox works fine for you on a slightly older version of the same platform.

Re: Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web

#15

Post by dagmx »

freedomben wrote: post #10
blueprint wrote: post #5

is there a reason the author refuses to capitalize "Apple"?

Based on the pattern and other words that aren't capitalized like "vision" in "apple vision OS", I would guess it's as simple as "author used speech to text and apple is a word that is common in the English language and isn't usually a proper noun so isn't capitalized automatically."

Nit: all Apple OS’s are camelCase marks.

Re: Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web

#16

Post by c-fe »

a3w wrote: post #2

Scrolling up and down on this website, the top "progressive blur" was annoying: too strong in the vertical expansion, on too small an area in the height used.

I really like the effect but im also on safari on a newer macbook this machine is practically made just to render blurs well

Re: Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web

#17

Post by brookst »

dagmx wrote: post #15
freedomben wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on the pattern and other words that aren't capitalized like "vision" in "apple vision OS", I would guess it's as simple as "author used speech to text and apple is a word that is common in the English language and isn't usually a proper noun so isn't capitalized automatically."

Nit: all Apple OS’s are camelCase marks.

Or camelCASE really.

Re: Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web

#18

Post by [deleted] »

tredre3 wrote: post #11
38 wrote: post #3

> Throughout the years, apple consistently delivers great design. They seem to always define (or at least popularize) a new trend, which then storms the world and everyone copies it To the loss of everyone. This is the same company that introduced disappearing scrollbars, just one of many dumb design decisions. What modern design seems to forget, is that at the end of the day, people actually want to USE the interfac…

Disappearing scrollbars on the desktop is the bane of my existence. Gnome is unusable to me for this reason (it can be worked around but it doesn't always work and I don't want to fight my OS).

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Re: Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web

#19

Post by JumpCrisscross »

c-fe wrote: post #16
a3w wrote: post #2

Scrolling up and down on this website, the top "progressive blur" was annoying: too strong in the vertical expansion, on too small an area in the height used.

I really like the effect but im also on safari on a newer macbook this machine is practically made just to render blurs well

Works fine in Safari on my iPhone, too. Curious if Apple is doing something in hardware.

Re: Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web

#20

Post by blt »

I suppose implementing effects like this in CSS instead of GPU shaders is the modern version of implementing a 3D spinning cube on an 8-bit home computer. Pushing the hardware to its limits is now too open-ended, so we push specifications to their limits instead.
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