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Jake Archibald
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Developer of sorts at @firefox.com. No thought goes unpublished. He/him.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · Jun 17
CSS uses a complex algorithm to decide how to animate transforms. If you get it wrong, as many folks do, you end up with an unnatural animation.

Here's how it works, and how to avoid the pitfalls.

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Animating zooming using CSS: transform order is important… sometimes
How to get the right transform animation.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 23h
It's still behind a flag. It isn't riding the train to stable yet.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 1d
AVIF compresses better at "web" sizes imo, but don't take my word for it. Definitely don't take someone who works on AVIF/JXL's word for it either 😁
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 1d
Ugh I'm sorry @lawnsea.bsky.social. I'm used to… poor discourse around this topic.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 1d
This is a bad take. I have my own knowledge and opinions here, but I'm in a discussion where someone's playing down one of the features of JXL, and I want data to either back up my POV, or show that I'm wrong.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 1d
If you were to pick one or two things it does better than AVIF, what would those be?
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 1d
If you were to pick one or two reasons why it's better than AVIF for a new image (not converting from JPEG), what would they be?
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 1d
Folks who want to see JPEG-XL supported in more browsers, what is it about the format that attracts you to its use on the web?
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 5d
I'm actually quite impressed by Google's AI search, but hah it does this _a lot_.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 7d
Yay! But first example has a mismatching start and end tag
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 8d
It's a different codec per format. MozJPEG for JPEG, but just the regular encoders for webp and avif, we just expose all the relevant options compared to other apps.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 8d
It's not mine, so I can't close it. The code is open source.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 8d
For the "frontend"? Just Rollup and Preact. The codecs are C/Rust projects compiled to wasm
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 8d
Same
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 8d
It looked great, at least
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 8d
I'd read your memoir
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 8d
Yeah, I looked into it when I was leaving Google, and also got bad vibes
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 8d
On the bright side, some of those involved got promotions. Some even got jobs at Vercel.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 8d
fwiw I was also told I wasn't a team player for that too. I guess I'm not a team player.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 8d
That's a good question. I can't remember if the suggestion was to switch hosts or not.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 8d
Correct.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 8d
Nooo reading the spec is for dorrrrks
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 8d
There was a period during my time at Chrome where a well-resourced sub team did significant amounts of free work for Vercel.

This included giving Rauch a talk at Chrome Dev Summit.

I was asked to switch squoosh.app from Preact to Vercel, and was told I wasn't a team player for refusing.

Mad.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 9d
Haha I didn't have to use Remix all that much at Shopify, just one project. I even defended the use of Remix on that project given the availability of the core team.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 9d
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 9d
What's next? Playing badminton with Skelator?
The CEO of Vercel bragging that the dumb Trump credit card site issues his framework The Vercel CEO bragging that he hung out with Netanyahu
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