Hacker News Reader

I looked at this and thought "What am I looking at? There's some janky animation as things shift around but what's the bit I'm missing??" and then it slowly dawned on me clicking around a bit more that it must be the poxy animation bit itself.

I mean I guess web consumers are just SCREAMING OUT for this and I've been living under a rock?

Obviously I am old and grumpy but holy crap this is exciting browser development now. Seesh.

View on HN

I just think it looks neat. I first saw this animation demonstrated by chrome team years ago in some developer conference video, and have been searching whether it's done every couple of months since then.

Sure, if you make seconds-long animations on every interaction, or implement this for blog posts, it's going to be unusable.

But for web apps, short animations in UI transformation make it feel more... held together I guess. Consistent. I like it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com