Glowform
Creative
css animation demo
SHOW HN2011
How HN took it
3 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 14 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score -0.38.
Design: 3 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Visually slick and cool-looking effect
From 3 comments
Okay, that is just sexy looking. I feel like I need to make a gaming site now or something.
jarin on HNUsability problem: the animation attracts attention, distracts the eye. The moving glow, mixed with the small lettering, makes it hard to read quickly. When the animation finally…
Xurinos on HNsuper slick! I can see this work well on an iPhone webview. I want it like ice cream :) Awesome job man.
zinssmeister on HN
Fun demo that could be useful in a project
From 1 comment
I usually consider these exercises as fun, but pointless. This certainly meets that criteria, but I could actually see using this in a project. It is very hot. Are you also…
bmelton on HN
Objections
Animation is distracting and hurts form usability
From 2 comments
Usability problem: the animation attracts attention, distracts the eye. The moving glow, mixed with the small lettering, makes it hard to read quickly. When the animation finally…
Xurinos on HNThe problem is that the intent of a user, when they see in a form, is to fill in that form. Adding a glowing background distracts them from their task, hence bad usability. It's…
nostrademons on HN
Uses significant CPU and runs slowly on some devices
From 3 comments
What's the point of having animated glowing forms if they swallow 50% of the machine's cpu?
elii on HNMaybe it's just me, but the CSS3 rendering uses more of my CPU than the image scrolling.
mauriciob on HNruns kinda slow on my iphone :(
wdewind on HN
Low contrast grey text is hard to read
From 2 comments
I'm loving that glow! Great work. I'm outside on a laptop and can hardly read the grey text though.
AndyJPartridge on HNI agree on the importance of accessibility but just wanted to make a note that the only colors on that page are the glowing effect around the form. the rest of the page actually…
jiaaro on HN
Form HTML is invalid; submit button sits outside form
From 2 comments
Submit button is broken. Why is it outside of the <form>? Cool use of animation.
retlehs on HNIt should still demonstrate proper HTML and it only takes a few seconds.. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/145404/demo.html - submit inside the <form>
retlehs on HN
Requests
Fix contrast of grey text
From 2 comments
Yeah, on some monitors the contrast is pretty low. I'll probably bump it up.
kaylarose on HNEdit: Sorry, other people beat me to it. See other replies re:text colors. However I agree about the contrast, I checked on my external dev monitor (vs. my super bright MBP…
kaylarose on HN
Fix Firefox animation restart after refocus
From 1 comment
Firefox 4, animation does not restart after focusing a form field, clicking elsewhere, and then re-focusing on it. I quite like the whole effect, though.
malnourish on HN
Questions
Why is the submit button outside the form?
From 1 comment
Submit button is broken. Why is it outside of the <form>? Cool use of animation.
retlehs on HN
Why does this have so many upvotes?
From 1 comment
Why does this have 160 upvotes on Hacker News? It's CSS, it doesn't work in all browser and it's not even remotely useful
mkilling on HN
Alternatives named
Dragonfish Glowing Form demo from Dragon Labs
From 1 comment
I remember being impressed by Dragon Lab's Dragonfish Login Form Demo[1] when it first came out. They implement the effect by using a rather large background image and a mask…
kaylarose on HN