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by cursed
4334 days ago
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Big fan of your Velocity.JS, Julian. How does Blast.JS compare to Lettering.JS? (http://letteringjs.com/) Edit: It's been awhile since I've looked at Lettering, but to answer my own question, Lettering only splits on individual letters, while Blast allows for user-definable splits. |
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Lettering.js has a slightly smaller footprint and aims to be a dead-simple "wrap spans around each letter/word in the HTML element I point you at." Accordingly, it discards your HTML then dumbly splits using spaces as delimiters. Because of this, you have to use Lettering.js in silo'd portions of your page where you don't mind losing HTML and event handlers. Further, its lack of UTF-8/multilingual text parsing means that it's only suitable for English, and only in controlled portions of your page where you already know exactly how text is written out.
Blast, in comparison, tries to be a "set it and forget it" library. Point it at anything, blast it apart, then even reverse what you've done ($el.blast(false);). You can apply it to user-generated text in real-time and not worry about a thing.
Perhaps most important, though, is that Blast.js features a sentence delimiter plus search, which Lettering.js does not.