What is the down side of FLIP animation method?
hi, when search about FLIP animations in web (https://css-tricks.com/animating-layouts-with-the-flip-technique/) i realize that in paper we should use this method for all kinds of animations which affects layout therefore other elements.
so i wonder why very few people uses it because of it is complex or what?
David Khourshid
CSS-Tricks
Animating Layouts With The FLIP Technique | CSS-Tricks
User interfaces are most effective when they are intuitive and easily understandable to the user. Animation plays a major role in this - as Nick Babich said,
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There's probably a bunch of reasons people don't use it, but:
- awareness can't use (or design around) what you don't know about
- complexity the concept of animating things backwards is counterintuitive, and some people will bounce off the idea
- separation of concerns it's using javascript to run animations, which lots of people don't like
- filesize it requires loading js for presentation, which increases weight and therefore load time, which people don't like either
- necessity the article you link talks about the 'jank' which comes with very complex animations that are rendered through the browser, which is only an issue if you're doing a bunch of complex animations, which most projects don't require, so it's not a problem that many people need to solve in the first place