Alice.js: A Lightweight Independent CSS Engine

Alice.js is a new, experimental project started by Research In Motion® (RIM®) to exploit hardware accelerated graphics for web applications using CSS3 2D and 3D facilities. It is a micro JavaScript® library focused on creating fun, useful animations around web page elements (DIVs) using a single line of JavaScript code. This session introduces Alice, discusses how it was built and looks at some of its innovative aspects such as Organics - automated randomization to give animations a more organic non-repetitive feel. We’ll show a simple, concrete HTML5 game that makes use of these techniques and discuss how those same effects are also relevant to business applications.