react-blur
Dev tools
ui component
SHOW HN2015
25points
17comments
#1,043of 2,565 in 2015
Top 41%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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Nice work, useful contribution
From 3 comments
Nice work. Suggestion: Add support for frosted glass since it's an easy extension. You would only need another parameter for an RGBA color for "tint". Then draw over the blurred…
WhitneyLand on HNThanks for the contribution! Minor point: It would be nice if the demo's slider would be draggable on mobile, iOS Safari can't see it in action.
untilHellbanned on HNNice work! I noticed that you're caching `this` as a variable: ``` var Blur = this, ``` And it looks like you're doing so to avoid scope problems in anonymous functions: ```…
morley on HN
Objections
CSS filters could do this with better performance
From 1 comment
Does this need to be a canvas-scribbling React component when you can do this with better performance using a couple of lines of CSS filters? Is there some advantage I'm missing?
fitter on HN
Written as React component rather than plain JavaScript
From 1 comment
But why write this as a React component, when a plain javascript implementation would do fine (in view of compatibility with existing code, which may not be using React)? Am I…
amelius on HN
Requests
Add frosted glass tint option
From 1 comment
Nice work. Suggestion: Add support for frosted glass since it's an easy extension. You would only need another parameter for an RGBA color for "tint". Then draw over the blurred…
WhitneyLand on HN
Make demo slider draggable on mobile
From 1 comment
Thanks for the contribution! Minor point: It would be nice if the demo's slider would be draggable on mobile, iOS Safari can't see it in action.
untilHellbanned on HN
Questions
How does performance compare to CSS?
From 1 comment
I'm not smart enough to know how good the performance is on this. Decent? Better than CSS?
antidaily on HN
Can SVG filters be used instead of canvas in IE?
From 1 comment
You can. SVG Filters are supported. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/10/14/svg-filter-effects-in-ie10.aspx Edit: to clarify, the image would need to be moved into the SVG…
spdustin on HN
Alternatives named
CSS filters
From 1 comment
Does this need to be a canvas-scribbling React component when you can do this with better performance using a couple of lines of CSS filters? Is there some advantage I'm missing?
fitter on HN
SVG filters
From 1 comment
You can. SVG Filters are supported. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/10/14/svg-filter-effects-in-ie10.aspx Edit: to clarify, the image would need to be moved into the SVG…
spdustin on HN