Comments on: De-crocking HTML5

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:30:48 +0000

CSS transitions and animations work well on the iPhone, where it’s painfully slow to move things with the DOM in JavaScript. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s why they are in Safari.

By: Schill

Schill — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:29:25 +0000

This is a pretty good example of CSS transitions at work, the source code is helpfully formatted for reading. While currently a Safari-only feature (not unlike IE’s ActiveX-based transform/transition filters from back in the day), it could be useful and it might be interesting to see some standard adoption in this area if the technique becomes popular with developers.

I’m not sure what to think of having animation properties defined in CSS, though it does seem convenient and logical when simply adding a transition or animation effect between a link’s normal and hover states, for example.

By: pendensproditor

pendensproditor — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:52:37 +0000

The placeholder image for this video is terrifying.

By: ThomasHansen

ThomasHansen — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:41:25 +0000

Crockford have done some pretty amazing things [JSON, JSLint, +++], and he have said some pretty weird things…
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I am pretty sure that this is at least 50% in the second category…
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Together with his args about Microsoft’s implementation of x-site XHR previously…

By: Aimos

Aimos — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:24:38 +0000

Strange, that he do not join the force and instead starts a one-person project?

A couple fo days back I had the strange idea (because of the many

in current html:

Would there be any use of _anonymous html tags_* such as: <>Text and how could I adress it in css?

How about: < class=”foo”>Text could be addressed with .foo normally.

*there are anonymous functions in many other languages.

By: diogo

diogo — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:01:52 +0000

I agree with Douglas Crockford here and I have written about this before.