VIvichu·Dec 14, 2017
The technique is known as "parallax scrolling". Not sure on the exact tech, but here's an example library: https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr
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skrollr
Stand-alone parallax scrolling library for mobile (Android + iOS) and desktop. No jQuery. Just plain JavaScript (and some love).
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6 sourcesThanks!
We used an animation library called Skrollr.
https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr
In Show HN: Dumpstr.io – private Twitter for thoughts (closed beta open for a day)We call it parallax scrolling, but I'm not sure thats the correct industry term.
Anyway we used a version of Skrollr for the animations: https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr
In Show HN: DepotIf someone is interested, they've used this: https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr
In FontwalkThanks! I used skrollr.js [1] to create the parallax animation and some JS for scroll handling. I will write a blog post [2] on how I made it in detail soon.
[1] https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr
[2] http://kushagra.me/blog/
In What is A/B Testing?It seems that the main demo is a bit too busy for Chrome.
I had similar issues trying to spice up a presentation website with transitions and animations. The simpler examples[x] seem to be working much better.
In my experience, Firefox and Chrome tend to perform very flakey when CSS3 transitions/animations are in question. It's like a random performance profile is chosen every time the document loads. More often than not, the second time to load the transitions/animations work great, as if the browser performed some CSS JIT, but performance often drops again on consecutive loads.
I hope these features mature performance-wise, so we can start using them in meaningful ways (and also survive the 2001-style abominations that are bound to happen). I think it's sensible to use requestAnimationFrame[r] to determine if the animations aren't perfo
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rming well, and disable them accordingly.
[x]: https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr/tree/master/examples#ex...
[r]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.requestAnimation...