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Jul 11, 2017 35 min

Kirupa Chinnathambi — Animating the Web

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Kirupa Chinnathambi works as a Program Manager in the Web Platform team at Microsoft. His latest book, Creating Web Animations published by O’Reilly Media, examines how animations are made in today’s user interfaces. This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by: CSS Dev Conf — Conference dedicated to CSS and its super friend technologies like JavaScript, Sass, npm, and more. A limited supply of Early Bird Tickets now on sale. Register now! UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now! Time Jumps 1:50 What got you into the web? 4:40 Why write a book about web animations? 6:40 How do you define CSS transitions and CSS animations? 8:15 In order to maximize CSS do you need to have Javascript? 9:10 How much Javascript knowledge does someone need on today’s web? 10:30 What are some tips for making animations with better performance? 12:18 What would cause you to work with canvas? 13:20 What are the properties you want to avoid? 15:35 What if I position absolute within a nested div that’s positioned relative? 16:30 What tools would you recommend for testing performance? 17:15 What were your goals in writing your book? 21:55 What are your views on the CSS spec going forward? 27:10 When’s the sequel coming out for your FrontPage book? 29:40 How important is blogging? 32:10 Discussion of owning your content. Links: Christopher Schmitt Christopher Schmitt on Twitter Kirupa.com Kirupa on Twitter Kirupa on Facebook 📘 Creating Web Animations 📘 Learning React 📘 Javascript Absolute Beginners Guide Commander Keen Chrome Dev Tools Non Breaking Space Show on TuneIn Non Breaking Space Show for Android Non Breaking Space Show on Google Play Non Breaking Space Show on iTunes Non Breaking Space Show on Facebook 📺 Non Breaking Space Show on YouTube Non Breaking Space Show Newsletter

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