I really like the aestectics, even if physically wrong at the edges. Thanks for sharing the details.
As a embedded developer, I feel this is kind of wasteful. Every client computes an "expensive" blur filter, over an over again? Just for blending to a blurred version of the background image?
I know - this is using the GPU, this is optimized. In the end, this should not be much. (is it really?)
<rant> I feel the general trend with current web development is too much bloat. Simple sites take 5 seconds to load? Heavy lifting on the client? </rant>... but not the authors fault
As a embedded developer, I feel this is kind of wasteful. Every client computes an "expensive" blur filter, over an over again? Just for blending to a blurred version of the background image?
I know - this is using the GPU, this is optimized. In the end, this should not be much. (is it really?)
<rant> I feel the general trend with current web development is too much bloat. Simple sites take 5 seconds to load? Heavy lifting on the client? </rant>... but not the authors fault