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dymk on Dec 17, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple changed how reading books works in iOS 16

There is no way that the change was due to performance. The old page flipping animation was delightful, but in no way computationally significant on iPhones even 5 years ago.

justsomehnguy on Dec 17, 2022 [–]

It was 'computationally significant' on Am486DX4/100 with that DHTML (Java applet actually).

Every browser nowadays can imitate page flip with CSS only.

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