[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/16] Move the Mesa Website to Sphinx

[Jason Ekstrand]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Not sure how much voting power I have, but I really like Erik's version at
>
> https://codepen.io/kusma/pen/vrXppL
>
> It uses CSS3 animation on hover, so it's pretty low impact. Some
> slight cleverness could even include a fallback for a browser that
> doesn't support SVG.
>

Could you be more specific about what exactly it is that you like?  Do you
like the font? colors? style? the fact that it uses css? the fact that it
doesn't use JS?  To me, the later two are immaterial and pretty trivial to
put into any logo design.  Using WebGL is a bit less trivial, obviously.

--Jason



> IMO solutions like three.js and so on are non-starters for something
> as trivial as a logo. Having some mesa-demos ported using it might be
> neat, but the logo should be kept simple and accessible.
>
>   -ilia
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 6:52 PM, Laura Ekstrand <laura at jlekstrand.net>
> wrote:
> > This looks like a useful check for WebGL compatibility:
> > https://threejs.org/docs/index.html#manual/introduction/WebGL-
> compatibility-check
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018, 3:50 PM Laura Ekstrand <laura at jlekstrand.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Jordan's version is awesome.  But in general most people are concerned
> >> that WebGL will crash browsers.
> >>
> >> One idea is to look into using three.js, which is a front-end library
> for
> >> web graphics.  It's backed by multiple frameworks including WebGL.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jun 17, 2018, 9:23 PM Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 2018-06-17 17:43:37, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> >>> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Jordan Justen
> >>> > <jordan.l.justen at intel.com>
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > > On 2018-06-17 16:42:13, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> >>> > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com
> >
> >>> > > > wrote:
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > > > Also, Erik's is animated not with JavaScript at all, but just
> >>> > > > > CSS.
> >>> > > > > That's really cool.
> >>> > > > >
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > > The only thing the JS does is turn the animation on and off.  The
> >>> > > > actual
> >>> > > > animation is pure SVG. The main reason (as I understood it) for
> the
> >>> > > > JavaScript is to make the gears *not* turn if someone has
> disabled
> >>> > > > JavaScript.  I'm sure people will disagree as to whether or not
> >>> > > > that's a
> >>> > > > feature. :-)  I'm not sure if you can get the turn-on-hover thing
> >>> > > > with
> >>> > > just
> >>> > > > SVG and not JS though... /me doesn't know either all that well.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > All the JS and webgl. :)
> >>> > >
> >>> > > https://people.freedesktop.org/~jljusten/webgl-logo/gears.html
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Actually, it doesn't start webgl until you move your mouse over the
> >>> > > logo. Before that it is displaying a jpg of the gears.
> >>> > >
> >>> >
> >>> > I like how the gears smoothly spin up and slow to a stop.  Not sure
> >>> > what I
> >>> > think of the font.
> >>>
> >>> I changed the font to Roboto Slab, which I saw you mentioned earlier.
> >>>
> >>> -Jordan
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