Animation
(Barely) Working Text Effects!
After trying unsuccesssfully for about a week to split a block of text into spans of words or letters, I finally followed the KISS rule and made something work. Originally, I was trying to recurse thr ....... read more
17 days ago
Two New Effects, New Direction
Since this is supposed to be the "Midterm Evaluation Period" and "Coding Phase II" starts on Tuesday, I've been taking it easy this past week. However, I haven't completely stopped working on my proje ....... read more
Sun,
13 Jul 2008
Shear Effect, Verbose Demo Page
Since my last update, I've made the demo page more verbose and created a "shear" effect that, once again, splits the element into rows and/or columns and slides them in alternating directions, with an ....... read more
Mon,
07 Jul 2008
Disintegrate Effect
With the successful completion of the explode effect, I decided to build on the code used to split the node into pieces. I split the code in half and thus created a new generic function, dojox.fx._spl ....... read more
Sat,
05 Jul 2008
Explode Effect
I created a nice animation effect that splits the element into an arbitrary number of rows and columns, then sends them flying away from the element's center. The user can specify whether or not the p ....... read more
Wed,
02 Jul 2008
Intuitive animation Toolset
The animation framework in Dojo is very flexible, but because of that flexibility, using it is not a trivial task for the common web programmer. The animation system works well for the JavaScript-savv ....... read more
Mon,
19 May 2008