Donatello, a pure CSS drawing library

by dnewcome • 15 years ago

113 22 15 years ago

Bearing in mind that all browsers (in common use) that support border-radius and gradients, also support SVG and canvas, and that SVG and canvas let you do more, are generally more performant, and have fallbacks (SVG particularly) in older browsers, why would you use Donatello?

huskyr• 15 years ago

AFAIK, on iOS CSS (especially when using transforms) is a lot faster because it's hardware accelerated.

ryanpetrich2• 15 years ago

Only when using transforms and only when using 3D transforms (though iOS5.0 may support hardware accelerated 2D transforms as well)

knowtheory4• 15 years ago

This whole ninja turtles thing is going to get out of hand. I already know of at least one other Donatello library based on Raphael.js which does something different.

https://github.com/postmodern/donatello

You couldn't have picked a different ninja turtle?

endtwist• 15 years ago

Donatello (the person) was a renowned artist and sculptor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatello

knowtheory4• 15 years ago

Thanks i'm aware of my Renaissance art, but the things that connected Donatello the artist to Raphael the artist is being italian and a gap of nearly 20 years, in the reverse order you would think, given that there are now two derivative libraries built on Raphael named Donatello.

The ninja turtles connection is, even if you were talking about the artists, the more likely link :P

rorrr2• 15 years ago

Painters, not ninja turtles.

yesbabyyes• 15 years ago

This looks cool, you might be able to use move.js for the animations:

http://visionmedia.github.com/move.js/

my8bird• 15 years ago

is it possible to have things called pure CSS actually be pure CSS. this is definitely a JavaScript library that uses CSS, nothing more

sevenproxies• 15 years ago

Its pure CSS in the same way most pure 'HTML5' demos are

okal• 15 years ago

I have to admit, I was also slightly irritated when I actually checked out the repo. The title is deceptive. "Donatello, a JS drawing library" - which is what it is - would probably not rack up as many points. Interesting tool, I hope to check it out sometime, but the OP should have been a little more honest. Just call it what it is.

jQueryIsAwesome• 15 years ago

The title inside the main file is a little more honest: "A pure CSS vector drawing library" meaning that the vectors created are CSS only (not Canvas).

rorrr2• 15 years ago

It produces CSS. It should probably have HTML+CSS export, then it won't need Javascript.

Donatello, a pure CSS drawing library

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