[HN Gopher] Show HN: ztext.js - JavaScript library (3.9 kb) that...
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       Show HN: ztext.js - JavaScript library (3.9 kb) that makes any font
       3D
        
       Author : bennettfeely
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2020-08-26 19:34 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | rajangdavis wrote:
       | This is very cool! Would be a lot of fun to combine this with an
       | animation library and do lyric videos for songs but with pure
       | js...
        
       | djbeadle wrote:
       | This is pretty fun! I appreciate that accessibility was addressed
       | as well (although I'm unqualified to assess how well it works in
       | practice).
        
       | mmastrac wrote:
       | That's a clever and beautiful "hack" (in the positive sense of
       | the word). I could see this being useful for adding to the CSS
       | spec (text shaders, perhaps?)
        
       | breakfastduck wrote:
       | Very simple, looks great.
       | 
       | The kind of thing that instantly feels like it should be part of
       | standard CSS.
        
       | Waterluvian wrote:
       | How popular is "download this minified file and use it!" Vs.
       | Package management?
       | 
       | I feel like that's an instant turn off. I don't want to manually
       | manage all my stuff.
       | 
       | Or is there some middle ground where people just put a URL to the
       | download in their package manager solution, whatever it is.
        
         | jedimastert wrote:
         | For me, the middle ground is minified/gzipped CDN hosted. Just
         | a simple `<script src="..."></script>` for me.
         | 
         | Presumably you could do that here too, but I don't know how
         | this host feels about hot-linking
        
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