Emil Björklund

The following is a guest post by Emil Björklund. Filter effects in CSS have been around for a while, and together with things like blend modes, they bring new possibilities for recreating and manipulating stuff in the browser that we previously had to do in Photoshop. Here, Emil explores a performance technique using one of the more forgotten filter effects – the filter function – as well as recreating it with SVG.… Read article “The “Blur Up” Technique for Loading Background Images”