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Avgrund: a modal concept, designed to show depth

lab.hakim.se

92 pointsujeezy17 comments

Wow, that guy have some cool experiments: http://hakim.se/experiments

This is very pretty, but I've never met a modal dialogue box on the web that wasn't incredibly irritating and could have been done better in the interface itself.

I've never said this to anyone, but it sounds like you need to spend more time exploring the internet.

Definitely an improvement over the standard, and looks like it should degrade gracefully on old browsers. I can't help but wonder if fixed/absolute elements might not break the illusion, so beware. But still, (yet another) nice job from Hakim!

Cool concept, but very, very slow (c. 4fps) with Chrome 22 on a Core 2 Quad.

Strange, it's butter-smooth for me on Chrome 21 and Chrome 23 Canary. (MacBook Pro i7)

really? it's strange to you that it's smooth on an i7? If it wasn't smooth on an i7, what would it be smooth on?

Older version of Chrome was the strange part. I was assuming effects were getting offloaded to GPU.

On my old Thinkpad X200 with Ubuntu/Intel graphics.

Firefox 14. Smooth transition lasting about 1 second. The smoothness suggests more than 4fps. The text within the modal window 'jitters' or 'shuffles' slightly after the transition has completed, as if it is kerning or loading a font.

Chrome 21 (stable for Ubuntu/Debian) much less smooth, quite jerky. The font 'jitter' isn't there.

I liked the concept a lot, would definitely use it... but on Chrome 21 + Windows it's really, really slow, looks like it's rendering a 3D model.

Smooth and slick on my iPad; depends on support for hardware transforms.

It's a combination of the blur filter, a huge monitor, and integrated graphics. With blur turned off or the window resized, it's much smoother.

Seems smooth on a galaxy nexus with chrome 18

I thought this was really cool, but couldn't find a repo for this anywhere. Instead of relying on his demo to exist forever, I've moved all his code(minus analytics and sharing) into a github repo here: https://github.com/jonpaul/avgrund-demo

Agreed, really cool concept, but a bit slow. I like where his head is at, though, very cool.

Your intentions may be pure, but I think it's a bad idea to copy unlicensed code into a public repo, especially without the author's permission.

It would appear to already have a licence.

  /*!
   * avgrund 0.1
   * http://lab.hakim.se/avgrund
   * MIT licensed
   *
   * Created by Hakim El Hattab, http://hakim.se
   */

Which I would appear to be in compliance with :D

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