AnimeJs v4 Is Here • Hacker News Board

Re: AnimeJs v4 Is Here

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Post by jacobgkau » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 9:31 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #49

jacobgkau wrote: post #13

Scrolling through that landing page felt a lot smoother & snappier than I would've expected for a page looking like that.

It's clever, but honestly I don't care how smooth it is. Scrolling should simply scroll a view up or down a page. Not invoke animation. We already have established UX patterns for playing media, slowing it down, speeding it up, randomly seeking through it.

Part of the smoothness here is that scrolling the text is 1:1 once you get down to the sections with colored headers. It demonstrates that it's possible to make a page look fancy like that without "breaking" your intuition of what scrolling "should be."

JS animations obviously don't take the place of video/audio media that you'd play/scrub through.

Re: AnimeJs v4 Is Here

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Post by jonwinstanley » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 9:47 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #49

jacobgkau wrote: post #13

Scrolling through that landing page felt a lot smoother & snappier than I would've expected for a page looking like that.

It's clever, but honestly I don't care how smooth it is. Scrolling should simply scroll a view up or down a page. Not invoke animation. We already have established UX patterns for playing media, slowing it down, speeding it up, randomly seeking through it.

So what would you suggest to use to move the animation forward?

Re: AnimeJs v4 Is Here

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Post by derac » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 9:47 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #49

jacobgkau wrote: post #13

Scrolling through that landing page felt a lot smoother & snappier than I would've expected for a page looking like that.

It's clever, but honestly I don't care how smooth it is. Scrolling should simply scroll a view up or down a page. Not invoke animation. We already have established UX patterns for playing media, slowing it down, speeding it up, randomly seeking through it.

For most websites, sure. For this website? It makes sense, it's a great demo for the product.

Re: AnimeJs v4 Is Here

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Post by jonwinstanley » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 9:48 PM UTC

qgin wrote: post #39

This is the first time I haven’t hated scroll hijacking. That was actually really smooth.

I’m not sure that was scroll hijacked. It all moved at the right speed

Re: AnimeJs v4 Is Here

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Post by solid_fuel » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 9:50 PM UTC

I love it, but... Going to this page https://animejs.com/documentation/scope/ with ublock origin enabled in my Firefox (136.0.3) immediately crashes the tab. Which certainly made for a funny experience right after scrolling through the very impressive intro animation.

Re: AnimeJs v4 Is Here

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Post by kilolympus » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 10:14 PM UTC

It could just be me running a CPU that's too old or an unconventional browser (Microsoft Edge), but the website is extremely laggy (less than 1 update per second) and the tab immediately starts using 80% of my CPU with fans blaring. Got an 8th gen Intel i7 if it matters.

Re: AnimeJs v4 Is Here

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Post by true_blue » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 10:20 PM UTC

the website is just a blank black page for me no matter how long I wait. clearly that's not what it's supposed to be going by the other comments, so that's a bit disappointing.

Re: AnimeJs v4 Is Here

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Post by FlorianRappl » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 10:23 PM UTC

This is why I love HN. Not sure if I would have gotten the memo... Impressive tech, useful lib, super awesome landing page. Just blown away!

Re: AnimeJs v4 Is Here

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Post by johnsanders » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 10:25 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #49

jacobgkau wrote: post #13

Scrolling through that landing page felt a lot smoother & snappier than I would've expected for a page looking like that.

It's clever, but honestly I don't care how smooth it is. Scrolling should simply scroll a view up or down a page. Not invoke animation. We already have established UX patterns for playing media, slowing it down, speeding it up, randomly seeking through it.

It's not so much about playing/slowing/speeding up an animation or video. It's about moving forward and backward through an "experience," as much as I dislike the overuse of that word. I'd suggest it's a natural evolution of the scroll behavior.

Re: AnimeJs v4 Is Here

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Post by philsnow » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 10:27 PM UTC

wg0 wrote: post #34

Anyone remembers DHMTL from Internet Explorer 4.0? From that - to this. What an evolution of web technologies.

I was just working on a "web app" for personal use yesterday where I'm doing document.getElementById and so forth. It still works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯