Sunday, June 22, 2003 |
12:01 - Rockin' Website of the Day
http://www.concepthouse.com/products/Fluid/
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I went to this site seeking the "Fluid" screensaver (thanks to a tip in MacAddict), but while waiting for the download, found myself stunned at the things they've managed to pull off with the website design.
Go ye and look, if you're using Safari. (I checked using IE on both Mac and Windows, and it doesn't look remotely right. Does it not support these features?) They've got curved-boundary layers with alpha blending, CSS up the wazoo, and gorgeous text layout. All in a very small amount of back-end code, and no frames. I'm floored.
Oh, and the screensaver itself rocks, too. Randomizer is indeed the way to go; it's always fun to see a surprising selection of ways your monitor might look if it were a CRT in its last death-throes. Amazingly, the fluid effects render almost perfectly smoothly on my G4/450. I'd love to see how it looks at work. (Or on one of Monday's Mystery Machines.)
Plus you can install a "Theme Server" and serve your themes to other Macs on the local network; the screen saver is Rendezvous-enabled, so it will automatically discover Fluid themes being served from anywhere else on the LAN and let you run them. Even the randomizer will cycle through the networked themes. Sweeet.
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