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Not useful, all it does is lag the page and increase the cpu usage to 40% when you have hardware acceleration turned off.
Agree! They could have cached way more of this. A pre-rendered video would have had the same effect. A fun and impressive thing to build for sure, but its value isn't worth its complexity.
Clearly the USA is more active during the day, as is India and Europe. Brazil on the other hand is backwards. Anyone know why that would be? I’ve worked with Brazilians before during the day so that struck me as really peculiar.
This is amazing! Is it just me or is the performance of Github's globe really bad on Firefox? The FPS is super low for me on Firefox but fine in Chrome.
Looks a lot like the globe on Stripe's homepage: https://stripe.com They even had a post about it, too: https://stripe.com/blog/globe
It's still a heavy thing to add to any page IMO. Which shouldn't be downplayed.
But it is very neat and I still like it.
Looks a lot like the globe on Stripe's homepage: https://stripe.com They even had a post about it, too: https://stripe.com/blog/globe
I'm not convinced of the performance, I heard my fans spin up when I first opened the new Github.com redesign a few weeks back and remember commenting on it to our developers ("how we destroyed your browsers performance" as a joke). It's still a heavy thing to add to any page IMO. Which shouldn't be downplayed. But it is very neat and I still like it.
They optimized for hitting 60fps without any concern for the resources they were using as long as it fit in that budget
I agree that using this amount of resources in the browsers of visitors shouldn't be taken lightly (they could be on battery for example).
This is amazing! Is it just me or is the performance of Github's globe really bad on Firefox? The FPS is super low for me on Firefox but fine in Chrome.