Solid effect but not a fan of how it breaks the back button.
Yeah, I noticed I can't "back" out of the demo page altogether.
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Turn.js - The page flip effect for HTML5
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Re: Turn.js - The page flip effect for HTML5
#42Re: Turn.js - The page flip effect for HTML5
#43This is cool and I don't mean to disparage the work that went into it, but at the same time I hope nobody actually uses it because just plain old vertical scrolling web pages are way more practically usable.
It's a good alternative to Flash. I don't think people really advocate the effect as a replacement for normal scrolling paradigms. There are some specific cases where it might make sense to do it and it's great that those pages will no longer be forced into Flash.
> There are some specific cases where it might make sense to do it
Like when your client demands it and you give in?
I've used pageflip in the past and grew to abhor it. It's only quality is the cool factor, which we got over 6 years ago. I hate magazines that use it for their "digital" version.
Re: Turn.js - The page flip effect for HTML5
#44Why do people put QR codes on websites (the credits pane)?
So you could easily test out the demo on your mobile device w/o having to retype the URL.
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#45The font on the "page" gets blurry when the corner becomes clickable (at least on my machine, and it uses a ton of resources).
I think that is a bug in the hardware acceleration of Chrome. I've got the same problem on my website where I use CSS to do a crossfade on the background image. Everytime the images are crossfading all the text on the website gets blurry. By the way, if someone knows the real problem and, even better, a solution for it, I'm very interested.
I saw the same issue in Firefox (Nightly).
Re: Turn.js - The page flip effect for HTML5
#46Nitpick: don't call an animation lightweight when it's half the size of the entire jQuery library.
The minified/gzipped jQuery on that page is 32.8k.
The gzipped turn.min.js it comes out to 6k.
It's like half of this comments page is filled with people TRYING to come up with something overly critical to say. What a negative site this place has become.
Re: Turn.js - The page flip effect for HTML5
#47I hope the Kindle Cloud Reader uses this. One of the things I like about iBooks is the turn animation that makes it feel so familiar.
Re: Turn.js - The page flip effect for HTML5
#48Emulating old paradigms with the new technology is one of the biggest fails of UI designers in general. Why not got a step further, force your app users to walk to a virtual book store in a 3D world before they can start reading.
I've worked on an app that allows people to upload their photos to make actual photobooks. In this case it's nice to be able to show them what the book will look like. That app uses something in flash, but this HTML5 thing looks better.
Does the animation really add much? Would it just become annoying quickly?
Re: Turn.js - The page flip effect for HTML5
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a good alternative to Flash. I don't think people really advocate the effect as a replacement for normal scrolling paradigms. There are some specific cases where it might make sense to do it and it's great that those pages will no longer be forced into Flash.
> There are some specific cases where it might make sense to do it Like when your client demands it and you give in? I've used pageflip in the past and grew to abhor it. It's only quality is the cool factor, which we got over 6 years ago. I hate magazines that use it for their "digital" version.
There's also a reason it is used. A typical magazine layout does not translate well on an vertical scrolling page. This is one solution to a conversion problem. There's not always a "BEST" solution to that kind of thing. There are trade-offs no matter what you choose to do. However, providing different ways to view the same information is usually a good practice.
I wonder what is the "user" perspective on this. I am not sure everyone hates it - since it feels familiar in terms of structure.