GIFs vs Web Components
summary
Builds a 150-line GIF Exploder that slices GIFs by copying header/footer to make single-frame blobs, uses the Blob API to expose frames to the DOM, and wraps that as xgf with playback modes (speed, pingpong, beat sync, snap). Initial Polymer release vulcanizes to a single file (~34KB); porting to native Web Components removes framework lock-in, relies on Shadow DOM, and runs on Chrome 36 (≈300M users); Platform.js adds ~50KB for cross-browser support.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 0:29Web Components
- 4:49frame frame frame
- 7:22Dreamcode
- 16:54Chrome 36
- 20:21What's so different?
- 21:03Everything talks HTML
- 21:29Closing thoughts
