Amazing CSS3 3D popup book

http://2012.beercamp.com/

by mikebridgman • 14 years ago

133 48 14 years ago

2012.beercamp.com

jawr• 14 years ago

doesn't work under Chrome Version 20.0.1132.57 :(

valuegram• 14 years ago

works in Chrome 21.0.1180.79 beta-m

tseabrooks• 14 years ago

I find it interesting that this works, or doesn't. Based on these "Micro-Version" differences as well as whole version differences. What are the key differences? Is it actually chrome or some other system level difference?

Chrome Version 21.0.1180.79 works for me.

paulirish• 14 years ago

3D transforms is nearly completely dependent on the GPU of your machine. about:gpu in Chrome will give you more information about the differences and capabilities of your machine. In some cases, old drivers are too unstable to support and so they're blacklisted by Chrome.

rnernento2• 14 years ago

Working great in : Chrome 21.0.1180.79 m

Turing_Machine• 14 years ago

Okay in 21.0.1180.75 (OS X).

tayl0r• 14 years ago

Why would you be running Chrome version 20? Just restart your browser.

da_n2• 14 years ago

Had exact same question, why would someone purposely disable/prevent the auto-update mechanism?

FlukeATX• 14 years ago

Version 21.0.1180.79, doesn't work for me either.

hamxiaoz• 14 years ago

hmmm, mine works fine: Chrome Version 20.0.1132.57m win7

mparlane2• 14 years ago

Follow these instructions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4393135

atirip• 14 years ago

Immediately crashes iPad Safari :-(

hnriot• 14 years ago

Not for me, ipad3 here and it worked fine

huntaub• 14 years ago

It worked for me on iOS 6. I can't speak for earlier versions.

city412• 14 years ago

It even works fine on my iPad 1

Samuel_Michon• 14 years ago

Works fine on my iPad 2, iOS 5.1.1.

dazzawazza• 14 years ago

There seems to be quite a lot of Javascript in there as well :) Really nice design.

BTW: works fine in Safari 6.0 OSX

Narretz• 14 years ago

works "meh" in firefox 14.01. You can browser, but it stutters and you don't see the nice pop-up effect. It just appears when the page is turned far enough.

rnernento2• 14 years ago

Really cool design, I love seeing seamless in browser 3D, can't wait till this is the norm.

jack-r-abbit2• 14 years ago

While the overall graphics and the general mechanism looks decent, the actual action of turning a page if very kludgy and glitchy. I found it difficult to get the pages completely turned since the book kept rotating a bit.

jdonaldson• 14 years ago

Another tiny nit: They don't need those "+" icon interactions. They could've just used the book rotation controls as-is. Popup books usually don't have buttons, at least not from my generation /getoffmylawn.

city412• 14 years ago

What browser/OS are you using? For me in Chrome/OSX, the pages turn flawlessly.

jack-r-abbit2• 14 years ago

Chromium-based RockMelt 0.16.91.something (on Win7)

dave_sullivan3• 14 years ago

So I'll get down voted for this but it needs to be said: this is very cool and is a great proof of concept for the direction things are going. However, if you're promoting a commercial product, event, etc., you could have just used flash--it would be trivialish to implement, perform better, and have no cross browser issues--although no iOS to be fair...

As it stands, how many people will hit the site, see it's not working because they have the wrong browser version, and leave?

mikebridgman• 14 years ago

One thing to consider is that their target audience is attendees of the Front-trends conference, a conference specifically for front end developers. I think it's a safe bet that a majority of the traffic will have a compatible browser.

dave_sullivan3• 14 years ago

Ha, excellent point. Judging by some of the comments here, much of their traffic may not have a compatible browser version after all, but I'd imagine that they still have a higher tolerance for that sort of thing in the name of advancing the field.

ceejayoz2• 14 years ago

> and have no cross browser issues--although no iOS to be fair...

I love this casual dismissal of tablet/mobile phone users as if it were a non-issue.

dave_sullivan3• 14 years ago

Hardly a non-issue, but again, judging by comments below, hardly an issue that's been solved here.

So flash or JS, certain mobile users that should be able to see it won't be able to see it.

Livven• 14 years ago

Umm... as if that animation even worked on iOS or Android browsers...

eridius• 14 years ago

This is a terrible attitude. Among the other things that have been pointed out, not all desktop browsers have Flash. For example, no computer I own has Flash installed on the system. If I need Flash for some reason, I keep Chrome around, but it has to be a damn good reason to bother with.

patrickaljord• 14 years ago

They could have done it in Flash but then they would not have been featured on HN's frontpage.

lotyrin2• 14 years ago

Yes. Because graceful degradation isn't a thing.

Obviously they didn't apply it here fully, but it would have been possible for them to reuse their text divs on text-only browsers, drop their svgs for some prerendered raster graphics on SVG-less browsers, use their SVGs but have them render flat on 3d-transform-less browsers, have static 3d copies of each page if JS isn't available but 3d was, etc., etc.

It's even possible for established sites to collect statistics on combinations of available browser features, estimate ROI vs. development effort and decide which combinations beyond the least-common-denominator are worth coding for and slowly roll them out one at a time.

pizzatime• 14 years ago

That's not the point of the site. It's an annual meetup where people push the limits of the latest and greatest web technologies. The people visiting it will be web designers/developers, not Jane Doe who only visits facebook.

RandallBrown• 14 years ago

Seems like they should have some sort of fallback to users of IE can at least get some information about the conference

Very neat effect though. Is this based on actual folding math or is it just a series of neat animations? Like could this be built into a sort of popup book framework?

ralfn• 14 years ago

You only need a fallback for IE if your audience uses IE

fpp• 14 years ago

not working in Chrome Version 21.0.1180.77 on Linux

ThePinion• 14 years ago

I'm on chromium 22 on linux. Maybe you need to go to the about:flags page and enable "override software rendering list" for your browser to use the proper acceleration on the page. That's what I had to do for my old Inspiron 1545.

sahat• 14 years ago

Works smoothly on Safari 6.0 (8536.25) in Mountain Lion 10.8.

sray• 14 years ago

This is, to use a word I never use, delightful! Great concept, whimsical design, and wonderful execution. Well done!

Now, if I could only stop flipping the pages and get back to work...

thomasfl• 14 years ago

Hey you polish frontend hackers! Nice work!

mparlane2• 14 years ago

"Boo! It looks like your browser doesn't support 3D transforms."

Latest Chrome on Centos6 using a ssh socks proxy.

edit: solved thanks to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4393135

imjared• 14 years ago

I worked with the guys who built this (we're a DC design studio) and can tell you that it doesn't gracefully degrade simply because it's not supposed to. As some people grasped, this was for a frontend conference where everyone would be expected to be running the latest and greatest browser. There's no guarantee it will work on your setup but when it does, it's a cool experience.

Followup on how it was built here: http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/17/beercamp-an-ex...

Full repo here: https://github.com/nclud/2012.beercamp.com

Amazing CSS3 3D popup book

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