[thelist] ComplexSpiral is working!

Joshua Olson joshua at waetech.com
Wed Jan 12 14:53:45 CST 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Rider
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 3:16 PM
> 
> I'm really happy about this, and wanted to tell you all --
> 
> Many of you have probably seen Eric Meyer's "ComplexSpiral" 
> demo, which 
> demonstrates a very neat CSS visual effect.  The only problem with it 
> was that it didn't work in IE for Windows... which makes it not very 
> useable....
> 
> He later added a hack to make it work in IE 5, but it still doesn't 
> work in IE 6.
> 
> Well...  I pulled out the hack, and made it work.  IE Windows 
> and Mac, 
> Firefox, Safari.
> 
> Validates as XHTML Strict; and the CSS validates.  No Hacks.
> 
> Check it out:
> <http://www.striderweb.com/webcraft/complexspiral/>

Steven,

On my LCD, the screen flickers.  That can only mean one thing... you've used
checkboard GIF's to accomplish the illusion of semi-opacity.  I'm afraid
that technique is not really all that new, and definitely not what Eric had
in mind.

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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/
706.210.0168 




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