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Looks great! One thing -

The decay on the "name tag" for a particular stroke seems too long. I can't see what they just drew because their name is in the way. The effect is more pronounced on lightning speed.

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Indeed. This is running on the same codebase as Twiddla itself, and those little tags are timed for real people using the thing in real time. You're right that it's a bit overwhelming to have 50 of them onscreen at once. I'll be sure to dial that back.

great that was my only complaint on an otherwise very nice looking feature.

Fixed. They now fade out immediately instead of hanging around for a whole second. It's a little easier on the eyes now, and you can actually see what's being drawn without it being lost behind a wall of stickies.

Still seems to be too many of them at 2009-02-27 12:40:10 +0000. Also, playback gradually slows done here on Firefox 3. I gave up after about 1160 on Michelle's replay.

Yeah, Firefox has a somewhat undeserved reputation for being fast. They may have a fast javascript engine, but it's more than made up for by their amazingly slow rendering engine. I might simply sniff on the browser and turn those notes off for FF.

Maybe just add the ability to toggle the names on/off.

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