Plaiceholder

Beautiful pure CSS image placeholders, without the hassle.

3 followers

Beautiful pure CSS image placeholders, without the hassle.

3 followers

Transform your images into beautifully lightweight placeholders, with ease. Choose-your-own adventure, from pure CSS to SVG…

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Pixar Style Faces 3D Avatars

I'm not sure I 100% understand the product purpose. Its just blur all the photos on my website? I'm asking to understand and not to criticize =)

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6yr ago

Plaiceholder

Maker

@naveh_mevorach hey, No worries! The purpose is to provide a lightweight blurred placeholder (in place of an image whilst an image is loading) to vastly improve a site's perceived performance

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6yr ago

Pixar Style Faces 3D Avatars

@naveh_mevorach @joebell_ Ok got it! great idea! Thanks!

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6yr ago

RoadGoat

@joebell_ Not completely following. Doesnt the image have to load to make the plaiceholder blurred version? and if the image is loaded for blurring, wouldn't that imply it is also already ready as non-blurred?

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5yr ago

ntwrk

Really well done. Can you describe what the flow would look like to integrate into an existing web application? And, just to be clear, the API isn't available yet, correct?

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6yr ago

Plaiceholder

Maker

@joshuapinter Thanks Joshua! Sure, there are a few examples of how to use the open-source functions in the repo: https://github.com/joe-bell/plai... The API isn't quite ready yet but once the ball is rolling with sponsors it'll become a priority 🚀 If you need some help with your setup, feel free to ping me a message!

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6yr ago

Plaiceholder

Maker

Hey folks! I'm the author of "Plaiceholder"; a project born out of my quest to find the fastest and best-looking image placeholders for the web. I'd love to hear what you all think ——— Use the promo code `LAUNCHDAY` to get 50% off "supporter" memberships for 6 months (valid until Friday)

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6yr ago

Always SMPL

Such a smart idea. It's one of those things that just *makes sense* once you hear it, and seems even better in practice compared to the old standby. Can't wait to give this a shot!

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6yr ago

Plaiceholder

Maker

@irreverentmike1 Thank you Mike! Would love to hear how you get on

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6yr ago