Comments on: Transformie: Implement WebKit CSS transforms in IE

By: pcpavlov

pcpavlov — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:01:08 +0000

Thank you for the source. It works great in IE8, CHROME and Safari. I’ve managed to rotate text and table within a div. But when I go to print it prints correctly only in Safari. In IE8 there’s empty space and CHROME crashes. So I’ve tried a lot approaches including the next styles but it only works in Safari. Any help will be appreciated. Thanx for the code again.
#container1
{
position: relative;
width: 700px;
height: 1000px;
margin: 2% 5%;
page-break-after: always;
}

div.test
{
-webkit-transform: rotate(90deg);
height: 80%;
margin: 10% 0%;
}

div.test
{
-webkit-transform: rotate(90deg);
height: 80%;
margin: 10% 0%;
}
input
{
display: none;
}
.thead th
{
border-right-color: #6666FF;
}

By: webmatze

webmatze — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:22:46 +0000

I created a simple but funny rotating image gallery using WebKits CSS transform and transition features. It would be nice to see those features in upcoming versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer. It could replace a lot of effects currently only possible with JavaScript libraries like script.aculo.us.

By: sandro

sandro — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:03:07 +0000

Kudos to the developer for what is clearly skillful work. But, resume padding aside…this represents a strange trend. It was demonstrated by the adventure that Flash developers went on for a few years back around the turn of the millenium that these sorts of effects only lead to useless eye candy at the very best, and often to outright interface disasters. At least in the case of Flash there existed a quick and responsive environment, which Javascript is not able to match. I simply fear the worst here. Resig, god love him, scared me to death when he ported processing. There are people working on 3d engines. Please, please, don’t repeat history.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:35:45 +0000

Lots of talk about the open web going around, just not when it counts. Safari is filled with proprietary code. Adobe stuffs Flash with its own browser. Google builds a Flash-indexing robot! Is SVG even supported by the W3C anymore?

It seems the term “open web” means to open all of your competitor’s doors while keeping a lock on your own.

By: p01

p01 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:52:02 +0000

What gives ? maybe the fact that when webkit/mozila/opera implement new stuffs, they usually open a dialog and propose it for standaradization.

Yes, kudos for the experiment, and to IE for having that for 8 years ( heck I played with it myself back in the days and it was fun while it lasted ) but I’m afraid this is not the way to go. Until there is standards way to do CSS transformations like this, the way to go is SVG + foreignObjects.

By: ilazarte

ilazarte — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:11:03 +0000

When IE implements it, it’s Breaking the Standard. When webkit/mozilla implements it, it’s Growing The Web. What gives?

By: Hans Schmucker

Hans Schmucker — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:03:14 +0000

Great, now we have a hack emulating a proprietary behaviour using another proprietary behaviour, when there’s a standard way to do it: SVG and foreignObject… that’s exactly the way the web should not behave

By: Lon42

Lon42 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:44:25 +0000

“at last some tweaks”? IE could do this in july of 2000. Almost 10 years of CSS-defined 2D transformations.

And since IE was the first to do these transformations it might be fair to port the webkit implementation to IE’s… No… Better not…

By: mjsadiq

mjsadiq — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:23:35 +0000

Thats nice to hear at last some tweaks for IE Too :-))