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Posted by Sateeshm 9/8/2025

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG(kube.io)
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maelito 9/9/2025|
None of it looks usable. Perfect for digital family photos.

Great article though.

calrain 9/9/2025||
Incredible work on the CSS and SVG!

But liquid glass is such a horrible idea for a UI!

Now I feel like an old person, but I live with glasses every day and absolutely love clean UI's.

Introducing glass lens f*ckery just for the sake of it is terrible.

mirekrusin 9/9/2025||
Good work and pretty but part of me thinks - ah, ok, that's why our 12 orders of magnitude faster computers than zx spectrum lag more.
Gigachad 9/9/2025|
Surprisingly the actual liquid glass ui seems to be perfect 120hz smooth on my 4 year old iPhone.
altairprime 9/9/2025||
I’d be very interested to compare the power efficiency of this implementation versus the OS-native version of same over a 12-hour benchmark.
azatom 9/9/2025||
Why is it so loud? On same machine Cyberpunk2077 goes with highest settings with same fan noise.
internet2000 9/9/2025||
Very close, but no cigar. The magnifying glass effect distorts the text just enough to make it look off compared to the real thing. The "l" in displacement is really tilted, and the angle changes as you move the lens around. https://i.imgur.com/PW4RAYq.png
airstrike 9/9/2025||
Strangely the "Playground" session seems to work well in Firefox but nothing else does
meindnoch 9/9/2025||
Apple lost it when Johnny Ive died.
ghc 9/9/2025||
Fantastic job! Great writeup too!
martzoukos 9/9/2025|
Soon we'll be creating black hole simulations to run a browser effect.
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