Suggestions for minor enhancements

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Open hftf opened 10 years ago

hftf commented 10 years ago

[ ] Blink cursor
[x] Outlined text in grid axis labels for better visibility on both light and dark colors
[ ] Sticky menu (like this)

Opinions?

MattiasBuelens commented 10 years ago

By "cursor", you mean the crosshair on the click layer right? Sure, we could give it a blinking animation to make it stand out a bit more. What kind of blinking did you have in mind, just increasing/decreasing the opacity? Or perhaps a "glowing" animation instead?
The stroked text is a really good idea! I'm on it. :smiley:
Where would you put the sticky menu?

hftf commented 10 years ago

I tried blinking using CSS3 animations and it ruined the performance (~2 FPS on my new computer).
I already did it locally, lol. I'll pull, but the canvas ops definitely need to be batched. (See here for example.)
Not sure. I don't think the current layout is very good, so this would be part of some kind of redesign.

MattiasBuelens commented 10 years ago

Not sure what kind of animations you are using, but my computer has no problem with this:

#click {
    animation: blink 1s infinite;
}
@keyframes blink {
    0%, 100% {
        opacity: 0.5;
    }
    50% {
        opacity: 1;
    }
}

If we want something fancier, we could always roll our own custom animation with requestAnimationFrame to do something with the canvas.