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Plaiceholder

Plaiceholder

Beautiful pure CSS image placeholders, without the hassle.

3 followers

Beautiful pure CSS image placeholders, without the hassle.

3 followers

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

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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4yr ago
Joe Bell
Joe Bell
Plaiceholder

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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4yr ago
Naveh Mevorach
Naveh Mevorach

Pixar Style Faces 3D Avatars

@naveh_mevorach @joebell_ Ok got it! great idea! Thanks!
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4yr ago
Kurosh Hashemi
Kurosh Hashemi
RoadGoat

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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4yr ago
Pedro Duarte
Pedro Duarte
Raycast

Raycast

Love it. Great use of CSS too!
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4yr ago
Joe Bell
Joe Bell
Plaiceholder

Plaiceholder

Maker
@pedro_duarte1 Thanks Pedro!
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4yr ago
Wondering
Wondering
@pedro_duarte1 @joebell_ Really sleek!
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4yr ago
Lee Robinson
Lee Robinson
Next.js

Next.js

Really well done, congrats on the launch!
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4yr ago
Joe Bell
Joe Bell
Plaiceholder

Plaiceholder

Maker
@leerob Cheers Lee! Your React2025 course was a huge help for this
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4yr ago
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