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dandare
Very nice except for those easings.
Mithaldu
In Chrome these all animate quite choppily.
thebouv
Really? In my Chrome they're super smooth.

Version 42.0.2311.90 (64-bit), Mac OSX.

I was just about to compliment on that actually.

tmikaeld
I'm on the same, lags enormously...

Checking on Task Manager, it consume 100% CPU, GPU about 7%.

thebouv
Funny, I played with it extensively after your post, went through the examples, clicked the hell out of them.

All still fine.

I blame sun spots.

tmikaeld
Did you check the task manager?

May i ask your specs? I'm suspecting that GPU acceleration is not working on all Mac's with Chrome.

metamet
And moving the mouse around stutters the animation.
paulirish
If you turn on "Show Paint Rectangles" you see the entire SVG element is being repainted on every change, including rotating. Chrome doesn't handle this animation as good as it could, so in the meantime, they should to adopt a technique described by Charlie Marsh here: http://www.crmarsh.com/svg-performance/
thebouv
Nice idea and love the look, but not going to share with my designers lest they think we can start putting wheel-styled menus in everything we do just cause it's pretty.

This would be cool in certain UIs, but not always the best UX decision I wouldn't think.

hitgeek
i like the wheelnav with submenus. The tablet version of OneNote using a similar thing for contextual menus that I found very usable. The animations are very choppy on my Thinkpad when not plugged in, and the easing is all over the place. I'd like to see some examples with simple animations
hughes
Terrible performance on mobile... Couldn't tell it was animating :(
afandian
I feel sick

edit: this is a joke, right?

UUMMUU
I think it's more of a proof of concept than something you'd really want to throw on a site. Also, I'd say there could be some potential uses like for a music player or for a site that's less app and more website.
afandian
I thought it was a joke because of the typeface and choice of colours and ... well how it looks. It just looks silly. Here's what I see mid-animation:

http://i.imgur.com/wqD0v9h.png

If I were a web designer that's what I'd do to make fun of the concept.

Maybe it is serious.

hitekker
What a whimsical widget!

Not sure if I have a use-case for it, but it looks quite neat.

UUMMUU
Very cool! I could see the music player being pretty useful but the animation seems to be off when you toggle it opened/closed; almost like the icons are being overlaid on each other. That cirle wheel nav with submenus is so cool though. Very neat!
UUMMUU
Not to beat a dead horse but why was this downvoted? I thought downvotes on HackerNews were to be reserved for offensive/destructive comments? If my comment above offended you, please explain why instead of just downvoting it.
tonyhb
I like the consistent sarcasm throughout the website and these comments. I can't help but feel this is tongue in cheek.
afandian
I think that from the voting on some of the comments that it isn't...
kipple
So many JS libraries these days, I can barely smell which ones are real anymore
swalsh
This is real cool, It could still use some polish, but i'd definitely love to use it in the future.