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by porphyra 33 days ago
What's edge masking and what am I looking at? I clicked through several of the options and I don't see any difference. There just seems to be a really basic gradient shadow.

I have gpu enabled in google chrome (verified by visiting chrome://gpu) on Chrome/149.0.7827.155 on Linux.
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sebular 33 days ago
It took me forever to realize this, but I'm pretty sure the "options" ("ghost", "melt", "evanesce", and so on) aren't anything at all, just terms that are all adjacent to "fade" which can be selected for some reason. A search for those terms in the repo doesn't come up with anything.

I was really hoping to see what the "melt" effect looked like :(

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chao- 33 days ago
I am also struggling to see what clicking any of the options in the demo changes. I don't consider myself advanced in design knowledge, but I'm pretty average in visual perception.

Perhaps some or all of them don't work in Firefox for Android, and I'm just seeing a fallback behavior that does work?

Edit: Just tested in Chrome desktop and Firefox desktop on Linux, still struggling to see a difference in any of the demo regions (which I assume are supposed to demo the option when selected?). Also scroll behavior is graphically laggy/jumpy in Chrome, but not Firefox.

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