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Easy-to-use triangulated image placeholders

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Triangulated image placeholders

tip is an easy-to-use, efficent, and lightweight library for triangulated image placeholders. It uses a highly-optimized format over 10x smaller than minified SVG. (Currently not production ready)

Check out this demo.

Usage

  1. Add the library to your HTML:
<head>
  ...
  <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/rh12503/tip@latest/lib/tip.min.js"></script>
</head>
  1. Change the src attribute to data-src for any image with placeholders.

The library will look for the placeholder asset in the same location as the original image. To apply a blur filter on the placeholder, use the data-blur attribute.

Generating placeholders

Placeholder assets have the same name as the original asset but with the extension .tri. For example, image.png would become image.tri.

GUI

Install the GUI from the releases page.

CLI

In the future the command will be added to npx. Install the CLI using the command:

go get -u github.com/RH12503/tip-backend/tip

Generate the placeholder files by running

tip -in /path/to/image

or to process all images in a folder

tip -in /path/to/folder

The placeholder .tri files will be created in the same location as the image files!

Browser support

Every browser that has been updated within the last few years should be supported.
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All major mobile browsers are also supported including: Safari on iOS, Android WebView, Chrome Android & iOS, Firefox for Android, Opera Android, and Samsung Internet.

Contributors

Thanks to for @bstncartwright for advice and implementing the original concept on his blog!