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peteretep
This is very pretty, but I've never met a modal dialogue box on the web that wasn't incredibly irritating and could have been done better in the interface itself.
harlanlewis
I've never said this to anyone, but it sounds like you need to spend more time exploring the internet.
quarterto
Cool concept, but very, very slow (c. 4fps) with Chrome 22 on a Core 2 Quad.
lukifer
Strange, it's butter-smooth for me on Chrome 21 and Chrome 23 Canary. (MacBook Pro i7)
aoprisan
really? it's strange to you that it's smooth on an i7? If it wasn't smooth on an i7, what would it be smooth on?
lukifer
Older version of Chrome was the strange part. I was assuming effects were getting offloaded to GPU.
keithpeter
On my old Thinkpad X200 with Ubuntu/Intel graphics.

Firefox 14. Smooth transition lasting about 1 second. The smoothness suggests more than 4fps. The text within the modal window 'jitters' or 'shuffles' slightly after the transition has completed, as if it is kerning or loading a font.

Chrome 21 (stable for Ubuntu/Debian) much less smooth, quite jerky. The font 'jitter' isn't there.

cfontes
I liked the concept a lot, would definitely use it... but on Chrome 21 + Windows it's really, really slow, looks like it's rendering a 3D model.
moconnor
Smooth and slick on my iPad; depends on support for hardware transforms.
quarterto
It's a combination of the blur filter, a huge monitor, and integrated graphics. With blur turned off or the window resized, it's much smoother.
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emidln
Seems smooth on a galaxy nexus with chrome 18
lukifer
Definitely an improvement over the standard, and looks like it should degrade gracefully on old browsers. I can't help but wonder if fixed/absolute elements might not break the illusion, so beware. But still, (yet another) nice job from Hakim!
t4nkd
I thought this was really cool, but couldn't find a repo for this anywhere. Instead of relying on his demo to exist forever, I've moved all his code(minus analytics and sharing) into a github repo here: https://github.com/jonpaul/avgrund-demo

Agreed, really cool concept, but a bit slow. I like where his head is at, though, very cool.

csytan
Your intentions may be pure, but I think it's a bad idea to copy unlicensed code into a public repo, especially without the author's permission.
casr
It would appear to already have a licence.

  /*!
   * avgrund 0.1
   * http://lab.hakim.se/avgrund
   * MIT licensed
   *
   * Created by Hakim El Hattab, http://hakim.se
   */
t4nkd
Which I would appear to be in compliance with :D