Faster loading and smoother visuals
At a glance
- Improved:
Faster loading: Pages download much less script (about a third less on Home), the featured image loads first, and on phones the greeting shows up right away instead of after the artwork.
- Improved:
Flashy Home: The aurora, sparkles, glowing title and collection pills no longer redraw heavy blur effects every frame, and pointer parallax and card tilt touch only the pieces that move.
- Fixed:
Scrolling in Firefox: Fading cards and headers measure the page once per frame instead of once per card, so scrolling long pages no longer stutters.
- Improved:
Smoother 3D scenes: Vault, Admin, Version History and the profile pedestal lower their rendering resolution only while frames run slow, and return to full sharpness as soon as the device keeps up.
- New:
Vault tilt on touch: On touch screens, holding a finger on the Vault's glass now tilts the scene the way a mouse does.
New features
Vault tilt on touch screens
Pressing and moving a finger on the Vault's glass tilts the scene like hovering with a mouse. Touches on buttons and fields behave as before.
Improvements
Faster page loads
Home's selected featured image loads eagerly with high priority, while decorative backdrops stay lazy-loaded. The update log, the full icon catalog and unused validation translations are no longer downloaded with every page; the icon catalog now loads only when a collection icon picker or arrange list opens. On phones the Flashy Home skips its backdrop artwork wall, which was almost fully hidden behind the shading there, and the greeting no longer starts invisible, so it appears with the first paint. Signed-in pages also no longer keep the browser busy while artwork is still loading, and Try again on an error page now reloads the page's data. In Firefox the top bar no longer blurs the page behind it, which made scrolling heavier there.
Flashy Home performance
The animated backdrop, sparkles and title glow now animate without repainting large blurred areas on every frame, and the greeting slides in without a heavy glow filter. The avatar ring spins without being redrawn, and the title shine pauses between sweeps. The pointer parallax updates only the artwork wall and fan, and only the card under the pointer tilts in 3D.
Adaptive 3D resolution
The Vault, Admin, Version History and profile pedestal scenes watch their own frame times. When a device can't keep up they render at a slightly lower resolution, one step at a time, and step back up to full sharpness once frames are fast again. Fast devices never leave full quality, and oversized drawing buffers on very high-resolution screens are capped.
Fixes
Scrolling in Firefox
Browsers without scroll-driven animations, such as Firefox, animate fading cards and headers with a script. It now measures all of them first and only updates cards whose progress changed, instead of forcing a page layout for every card while scrolling.