Ask HN: What's Paydirt using for its animated demo?

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Leaving aside the the world vs IE storm that Paydirt kicked up, does anyone know if there's a toolkit/library for creating something like their animated demo on the homepage?

There's a thread on StackOverflow, anyone else have any clues. I'm not that keen to dig into canvas.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10494039/awesome-loupe-magnifying-effect-on-slideshow-at-paydirts-homepage

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The magnifier was built for us by the super talented @taybenlor. You should tweet him to tell him you like it :)

That SO post is pretty thorough!

Yep, it's a canvas element with rounded corners moving around on top of a fairly stock-standard slideshow. It uses a css transform to scale and this stackblur library (http://www.quasimondo.com/StackBlurForCanvas/StackBlurDemo.h...) to make it look like it lifts as it moves from place to place.

I stumbled across this the other day: http://codecanyon.net/item/magnifying-glass-effect/141589

Costs $5 and I haven't tried it so can't comment on how easy it is to work with but there are some demos. Hope it helps :-)

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