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Web Experiments

Various prototypes, experiments and proofs of concept that have appeared on persistent.info over the years. Some may no longer be applicable, but here they are archived for posterity.

• Communicating With a Web Worker Without Yielding To The Event Loop - August 2021
  • Source
  • Blog post
• Efficiently Loading Inlined JSON Data - January 2018
  • Source
  • Blog post
• Understanding WebKit behavior via lldb - July 2017
  • Source
  • Blog post
• Disabling the click delay in UIWebView - January 2017
  • Source
  • Blog post
• Performance.now() and sleep - November 2016
  • Source
  • Web Demo
  • Blog post
• Static Resource Grafting - January 2016
  • Source
  • Web Demo
  • Blog post
• Multiple Windows in Hybrid React Desktop Apps - December 2015
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  • Web Demo
  • Blog post
• *WebView Communication Mechanisms - October 2013, January 2015
  • Source
  • 2013 blog post, 2015 blog post
• Image-based SVG masking - June 2013
  • Demo
  • Source
  • Blog post
• Screenshot-proof images via temporal dithering - December 2012
  • Demo
  • Source
  • Blog post
• Visualization of DeviceOrientation events - December 2010
  • Demo
  • Source
  • Blog post
• Distortion grid using CSS 3D transforms - November 2010
  • Demo
  • Screencast
  • Source
  • Blog post
• Chrome skipped animation frames performance puzzler - November 2010
  • Demo
  • Screencast
  • Source
  • Blog post
• Replicating Flipboard's "page fold" animation - August 2010
  • Demo
  • Screencast
  • Source
  • Blog post
• Rendering text in <canvas> via font textures - Feburary 2006
  • Demo
  • Source
  • Blog post
• data: URL-based palette animation - July 2005
  • Demo
  • Source
  • Blog post
• CSS/DOM-based draggable magnifier - May 2004
  • Demo
  • Source
  • Blog post