Snow: Impove snowflake effect

[moollaza]

http://php.quicoto.com/snow-html-canvas/, Demo: http://php.quicoto.com/examples/27/

This is more of the effect we'd like to see (simplified snowflakes, smaller).

Also, let's try 700 particles and update the background colour of the IA to #D0D0D0

https://duck.co/ia/view/snow

[jagtalon]

👍 the snow oscillates pretty quickly as well. http://cl.ly/0J1J1K012L0v. Almost as if the snow flakes are shivering.

[gokul1794]

Is anyone working on this?

[moollaza]

@gokul1794 nope 👍

[gokul1794]

I get this, so how do I test what I do?
API key not found. Using DuckDuckGo's endpoint:
"https://ddh1.duckduckgo.com/js/spice/snow/Phoenixville%2CPennsylvania%2CUnited%20States"
"500 Can't connect to ddh1.duckduckgo.com:443 (Connection refused)"

[MrChrisW]

@gokul1794 The issue here is that the API_KEY doesn't exist an an env var on your system so the faillback API is used, in this case ddh1.duckduckgo.com.

I've experienced a similar issue with DuckPan failing back to the ddh1 endpoint which is currently not active, @moollaza fix?

The workaround is to plug https://duckduckgo.com/js/spice/snow/$1 into the spice to value on line 20 Snow.pm for testing purposes only.

[gokul1794]

Thanks @MrChrisW. That seems to work!

[gokul1794]

var snowContainer = document.querySelector('.zci-wrap');
I changed the class to be called to .zci-wrap and added

.zci-wrap{
    height: 150px;
}

for testing purposes, not too sure why it isn't working :/

[gokul1794]

@moollaza document.querySelector('.zci.zci--snow.is-active) returns null. This is where we want the snowflakes to be shown right?

[gokul1794]

Ok i got this to work, Will make a PR soon :)