[Mesa-dev] Mesa logo animation (was: Move the Mesa Website to Sphinx)

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 8:45 AM, Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen at intel.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 08.06.2018 15:06, robdclark at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 3:02 AM, Jordan Justen <jljusten at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 2:56 AM Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen at intel.com>
>>> wrote:
>
> ...
>>>>
>>>> For Mesa, WebGL could be more fitting implementation than SVG though...
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/gears3d/gears3d.github.io/blob/master/webgl10.js
>>>
>>> One comment I would have for any animation on the main pages (as
>>> opposed to a separate 'easter egg' page), it probably should be
>>> significantly slower moving than the traditional 70 degrees / second.
>>> The faster animation would be distracting on the main pages.
>>
>>
>> so one idea, which I think isn't too over the top, is to have the
>> static mesa-gears logo in top corner, but clicking on it starts/stops
>> the animation (just toggle between static and animated svg, I guess?)
>
>
> Typically website logo leads back to the main page of the site, so maybe
> that functionality should be only on the main page?
>
> (Easter eggs are supposed to be slight harder to find, right?)
>
>
> If it's done with JS / SVG, maybe it could also fetch the latest Mesa
> release version number from some file in the site, and show that e.g. on the
> gear(s), rotating with them.

It's also easy enough to e.g. only show the rotation on mouseover -
less distracting that way.

  -ilia