From the pictures itself it seems obvious that whoever wrote this suffers from the infamous valley "if it works on my iPhone, it's standard-compliant"-syndrome.
Because, you know, it breaks horribly in most stuff I throw at it and performs horribly bad even on desktop Chrome on a dev-machine.
The difference is that when people build on cutting edge tech that just about everyone agrees will be standard eventually they help push the advancement of that technology, when people built for IE only they used tech just about everyone agreed was horrible, caused vendor lock-in and was a huge security risk. I think if it works on Chrome, Firefox, IE 10, Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS and Android, we're pretty clear of vendor lock-in.
As much as I personally enjoy the demo the creator chose for the main page, I wonder whether said creator could have found a "flo-mo" view of something captivating for reasons other than "this chick is hot". (There's a really unpleasant history of the male gaze being squeezed into tech demos -- I don't think we need to do that anymore.)
I think you're trying to say something like "as long as developers are primarily men, marketing to developers means marketing to men". I see logic in that. But what you're leaving out is that the lack of women in tech fields is a serious problem, and it's a problem that is reinforced every time you do something that assumes a developer must be a man. So, whether or not this kind of demo is effective, I think it's destructive and irresponsible, in a small way.
(Besides, I find sex in advertising to be distasteful and kind of insulting. I expect it on TV, but I'd hope that the small community we have here would be a bit less base.)
Hey guys, thanks for checking this out. It was a really fun project to build! There are plenty of bugs to fix and devices to test. If you'd like to help, shoot me a pull request: https://github.com/thomasxiii/lenticular.js.
To those saying it isn't working, have you tried waiting? It seems the frames aren't pre loaded, so for the first few seconds of tilting on my iPhone 4s I was just getting a black screen with the occasional flicker.
It's neat at first, but then it becomes very distracting, to the point where it is difficult to focus on anything else on the page. Perhaps the mouse movement can be captured only when it enters a bounding box around the image (+ some padding)?
I'm not sure if I can think of a use case for this, but I am also confident that someone, somewhere, will make an awesome thing using lenticular.js :)
I'm flooded with emotions. Where on earth did you come up with the name? I'm... a fan.
Also, the idea is very cool. There was a gif site posted here or reddit the other day that consumed far too much of my time. Similar to this, but this has to be fun to do while tilting the ipad. (Android version?)
Ah, that's what I thought you meant too, but I'm a bit confused about what amazed you in the name. It's a good name, but I think it doesn't make much sense in this context, if it weren't for lenticular printing.
Because, you know, it breaks horribly in most stuff I throw at it and performs horribly bad even on desktop Chrome on a dev-machine.