GX - Full-featured Javascript Animations Framework
GX, my latest project, is come.
As the official page says, “GX is a full-featured, cross-browser, super-tiny (10kb uncompressed) Javascript Animations Framework. Using GX you can create complex animations working with every w3c CSS property. Currently, GX is designed in order to work with the jQuery Javascript Library and is being released under the MIT License“.
That’s not all. GX is not like an usual library for creating animations, its main goal goes further, in order to build a real FULL-FEATURED framework for creating smooth, custom and complex animations WITH EASE.
First of all, i want to start saying that GX is designed for everyone: beginner, intermediate and expert Javascript users. I decided to integrate GX with the jQuery Javascript Library for two main reasons: first, i really like the jQuery framework and its awesome community, and i find that the former is one of the best open source products available on the Web.
However, when i needed to make some complex animations, i was really getting mad (too many scripts required and placed in the same page for extending the core engine, too many kb). Secondly, i have already developed a software based on MooTools called moo.rd, so i wanted to create something else based on another library.
I’ve developed GX keeping in mind mainly two Design Patterns:
- the “Write Less, Do More” Pattern picked from the jQuery Library. With GX you’ll always write as less code as possible to get the best results.
- the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) Pattern. If a GX’s functionality is needed more than once, it will be internally reused with no duplicate.
GX respects the Strict Standards and doesn’t generate CSS/Javscript warnings. Moreover it prevents possible Memory Leaks because it will always use the same instance for a determinate element (say goodbye to “flickering”) to avoid either memory leaks and flickering issues. This technique allows you to always keep track of your animation’s state.
Although GX is completely cross-browser, it doesn’t contain any Browser sniffing: it’s 100% pure Javascript engine.
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