Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites

Post by dylan604 » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 3:20 PM UTC

ahoka wrote: post #17

Why would you want to drain your customer's batteries?

Post by dawnerd » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 3:29 PM UTC

afavour wrote: post #27

dawnerd wrote: post #25

Crashed latest iOS safari. Something like this probably should be disabled on mobile anyways to be nice to visitors’ battery

People will say “works fine for me” but I’ve experienced this with iOS Safari (and particularly webviews) repeatedly. Crashes are incredibly hard to pin down and replicate (maybe there’s also another tab dominating CPU? Maybe you’re on a lower end device like an iPhone 6? Maybe you’re on an older iOS version?). Some of the most frustrating user feedback to get.

Post by learc83 » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 3:31 PM UTC

edmcnulty101 wrote: post #22

crate_barre wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ll take this over the faux PowerPoint slide presentations that caught on the last few years. Repeat after me: It’s a website, not a power point presentation It’s a website, not a power point presentation It’s a website, not a power point presentation

What if a website IS a PowerPoint presentation?

Post by noduerme » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 3:34 PM UTC

gprasanth wrote: post #36

dawnerd wrote: post #25

Crashed latest iOS safari. Something like this probably should be disabled on mobile anyways to be nice to visitors’ battery

It's crazy how little memory browser tabs and webviews get on iOS. With the devices themselves having memory crunch, with hardly ~1gb of usable ram available, there's so much pressure on efficiency everywhere ~ modelling, loading, rendering.

Post by noduerme » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 3:37 PM UTC

hansworst wrote: post #14

This looks great, but it requires all of ThreeJS, even for the backgrounds that are really just some shaders. You don't really need a complete 3D library to just render 2 triangles that fill the entire screen and apply a shader to them.