Comments on: Webkit CSS Transforms

By: pkenoyer

pkenoyer — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:02:10 +0000

@xxdesmus – no I was just joking around and fantasizing.

By: Hudson Tavares

Hudson Tavares — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:46:08 +0000

@Michael: ROFLMAO. This is exactly what will happen, you're a prophet! @Sergey: SMIL: the world would be a better place if the modern browsers had 10% of it implemented. I wonder why only IE have some SMIL features.

By: thinsoldier

thinsoldier — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:01:53 +0000

Show of hands:
Who else wanted something like this since 2003 or earlier?

*crazy*
Who else wants to use .svg files as clipping masks on images and text wrap areas on paragraphs?

Who else wants the ability to flip the appearance of elements horizontally and vertically?

Who else has crazy ideas that aren’t really all that crazy?

By: Mathieu 'p01' Henri

Mathieu 'p01' Henri — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:17:16 +0000

Scott: That’s why I hope MS won’t wait 17 years to implement CSS3 transform. Heck they could claim they support CSS3, kinda like they support CSS 1 and 2 :)

Beside, affine transformations can be useful.

By: Utimer

Utimer — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:45:10 +0000

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from!

But as stated above, why not just a single api for all? Why force frameworks…

By: Sergey Ilinsky

Sergey Ilinsky — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:56:58 +0000

If they could all agree on SMIL2.1 instead of doing its own way...

By: Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:04:16 +0000

Thankfully, we have high-level frameworks

function bling() {
if(safari)putItToRotate(element);
else if(firefox)doAnotherCoolThing();
else if(ie)useDirectxAndBeHappy();
â€¦
else showASorryMessage();
}

By: xxdesmus

xxdesmus — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:56:47 +0000

@Phill Kenoyer

You can’t actually be serious right? Safari will never be the #1 browser. Firefox is a long shot, and that will likely never happen. Welcome to reality.

By: Hans Schmucker

Hans Schmucker — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:45:52 +0000

*smile* this feature is really present in all major browsers and indeed, every browser is doing it in its own way. For the sake of having the FF way also available on this page: You can use HTML chunks as foreign objects in SVG which does the exact same thing, just the other way around. Instead of doing SVG transforms in a HTML document, you do HTML rendering in a SVG document :)

By: Hudson Tavares

Hudson Tavares — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:28:24 +0000

Funny, but meaningless. Every browser have it’s own language extensions, but i think that doing things like that, the WebKit team have encouraged other companies to implement their own extensions…

Browser Sniffing 2.0 is on the way:

if(safari)putItToRotate(element);
else if(firefox)doAnotherCoolThing();
else if(ie)useDirectxAndBeHappy();
…
else showASorryMessage();

@Phill: Maybe our sons or grandsons will live in a world where the main browser isn’t IE6… and where Microsoft get scared and start to take care about Safari. Lots of good products still on darkness or as a choice of a small group, unfortunately.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:05:21 +0000

Safari is on itâ€™s way to being the #1 browser on the market.

In terms of quality? Yeah. Marketshare… not for a long damn time, and Firefox will probably beat them to it. Momentum abounds.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:19:41 +0000

Exactly what CSS needs

By: Scott Schiller

Scott Schiller — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:14:00 +0000

Ha! Interesting - sort of like MS' old "matrix" filter stuff. If this sort of thing becomes more widely-adopted, I'm sure the dev community could come up with some fun (and maybe even, heaven forbid, practical) uses for it.

By: Kris G.

Kris G. — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:19:49 +0000

Must. Have. This. SOON!!!

By: Phill Kenoyer

Phill Kenoyer — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:34:59 +0000

Safari is on it’s way to being the #1 browser on the market. Microsoft should be scared.