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14 ways to bounce a ball: A tour of the web animations ecosystem

14 ways to bounce a ball: A tour of the web animations ecosystem

There are more options than ever for animating things on the web. Bryan Braun leads a tour of the web animations ecosystem, comparing animation approaches in detail and exploring the principles that transcend them all. To do this, Bryan uses lessons learned from building and maintaining Bouncy Ball, a project that compares web animation approaches (think, a TodoMVC for web animation).

Talk Title 14 ways to bounce a ball: A tour of the web animations ecosystem
Speakers Bryan Braun (Sparkbox)
Conference O’Reilly Fluent Conference
Conf Tag The Web Platform in Practice
Location San Jose, California
Date June 20-22, 2017
URL Talk Page
Slides Talk Slides
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There are dozens of approaches for animating things on the web, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on his experience maintaining Bouncy Ball, a project that compares web animation approaches, Bryan Braun leads a tour of the web animations ecosystem, exploring 14 of the demoed approaches that modern developers are using to animate things and the principles that transcend them all. You’ll leave able to choose the correct approach for your use case in order to maximize performance and minimize complexity. Topics include: Browser APIs Animation libraries Other

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