I used to think implementing swipe gestures had to be very difficult, but I have recently found myself in a situation where I had to do it and discovered the reality is nowhere near as gloomy as I had imagined.
This article is going to take you, step by step, through the implementation with the least amount of code I could come up with. So, let's jump right into it!
I've been playing with CSS transforms for over five years and one thing that has always bugged me was that I couldn't animate the components of a transform chain individually. This article is going to explain the problem, the old workaround, the new magic Houdini solution and, finally, will offer you a feast of eye candy through better looking examples than those used to illustrate concepts.
In part one of a series of posts about optical illusions on the web, Dan Wilson looks at how to create the “Red Reveal” that he happens to describe like this:
Growing up, my family played a lot of board games. Several games such as Outburst, Password, and Clue Jr. included something that amazed me at the time — a red lens and cards with some light blue text that was obscured by a myriad of red lines. When you put the red lens over the card, the text would magically appear.
Here’s one example of that effect from a nifty Pen (more…)
"I'm getting a raise!"
This was my favorite quote from last year's Web Animation Workshops, as Val and I covered performance, tooling, and creating animations for SVG, CSS, JS and React.
Now we're gearing up for another round of Web Animation Workshops in 2018! But we're only offering two workshops this time since both of us have moved away from full-time consulting.
These features have not landed in any stable browsers at the time of writing. However, everything discussed is already in Firefox Nightly by default and key parts are in Chrome Canary (with the Experimental Web Platform Features flag enabled), so I recommend using one of those browsers (when reading this article) to see as many of the features in action as possible.
Regardless your preferred method of animation on the web, there will be times that you need to animate the same property in separate animations. Maybe you have a hover effect that scales an image and a click event that triggers a translate — both affecting the transform. By default, those animations do not know anything about the other, and only one will visually be applied (since they are affecting the same CSS property and the other value will be overridden).
Transitioning border for a hover state. Simple, right? You might be unpleasantly surprised.
The challenge is simple: building a button with an expanding border on hover.
This article will focus on genuine CSS tricks that would be easy to drop into any project without having to touch the DOM or use JavaScript. The methods covered here will follow these rules
User interfaces are most effective when they are intuitive and easily understandable to the user. Animation plays a major role in this - as Nick Babich said, animation brings user interfaces to life. However, adding meaningful transitions and micro-interactions is often an afterthought, or something that is "nice to have" if time permits. All too often, we experience web apps that simply "jump" from view to view without giving the user time to process what just happened in the current context.
User interfaces can be expressed by two things:
From credit card payment devices and gas pump screens to the software that your company creates, user interfaces react to the actions of the user and other sources and change their state accordingly. This concept isn't just limited to technology, it's a fundamental part of how everything works:
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
- Isaac Newton
CSS animations and transitions are great! However, while recently toying with an idea, I got really frustrated with the fact that gradients are only animatable in Edge (and IE 10+). Yes, we can do all sorts of tricks with background-position, background-size, background-blend-mode or even opacity and transform on a pseudo-element/ child, but sometimes these are just not enough. Not to mention that we run into similar problems when wanting to animate SVG attributes without a CSS correspondent.
Using a lot of examples, this article is going to explain how to smoothly go from one state to another in a similar fashion to that of common CSS timing functions using just a little bit of JavaScript, without having to rely on a library, so without including a lot of complicated and unnecessary code that may become a big burden in the future.