Observed arrival · 2026-09-21
Liquid Glass for the Web
A dependency-free web component library that renders interactive liquid-glass effects across Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
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- Frontend developers building tactile interface effects
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- Eleven custom elements share one refraction engine, with about 30 KB gzipped across two ES modules.
Field notes
The implementation uses displacement maps whose red and green channels encode pixel movement and whose blue channel supplies a rim highlight. The page says maps are cached and regenerated only when the glass shape changes, allowing a lens to move without a full redraw. Native inputs sit below decorative glass copies, preserving the underlying control layer for interaction and accessibility.
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