Comments on: CSS transitions

By: Ain Tohvri

Ain Tohvri — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:15:17 +0000

Kevin: yes, not only Silverlight, but SVG canvas animation as well, in many occasions referred to as HTML5. The thing that many are ignorant about, is that Flash provides the tools and hardware acceleration/optimisation for web animation. I'm gladly using HTML5 versions of YouTube and Vimeo myself and I think it's superb that we have a native way of playing it back now, but Flash has always evolved and there are no standards-based alternative to many of its uses. It's the matter choosing the right tools for the right thing and complaining are those who fail at it.

By: Kevin Redman

Kevin Redman — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:36:40 +0000

I strongly disagree with Spence. I once thought like that as well, that flash was an out of date technology, but in fact, the information being fed to me, from bloggers and tech gurus alike, was kind of taken to the extreme.

If a theory cannot be understood by a two year old, it’s not a good theory.

Heres the theory I’ve come up with in my thesis:

Web Standards is presenting a quality design to all users, while displaying a less attractive design for the others.

The fact is, some BASIC css features are still not implemented correctly in IE, or they’re implemented with a different set of “standards”… MS has always been the company to hold the web community back. Poor implementation and interface… Thats why I don’t design with anything <= IE6 in mind. I will present them with a banner, at the top of their page. Thats my solution.

So in fact, flash is going to be around for a while, I believe. Though there are other vector / oop based technologies emerging (silverlight i believe?)

By: pneumatyka

pneumatyka — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:56:07 +0000

Check Opera 10.5 transitions support in Opera 10.5 beta.
Download it here: http://www.opera.com/browser/next/

Transitions article: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/css3-transitions-and-2d-transforms/ (nice example at the end).

By: Ain Tohvri

Ain Tohvri — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:54:56 +0000

Sam: CSS Transitions Module is marked as upcoming medium priority Working Draft at W3C so it is very likely to be there in the future. W3C: "The Transitions Module defines a property to animate the transitions between pseudo-classes (e.g., when an element enters or leaves the ':hover' state). During a given delay, certain property values gradually change from the old value to the new, rather than instantaneously, as in level 2. This module is currently (summer 2008) under consideration for inclusion in the next charter of the CSS working group." CSS Transitions Module @ W3C CSS WG

By: Sam Logon

Sam Logon — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:04:10 +0000

Hey this looks really cool. Shame it would only work in Safari and isn’t CSS valid.

By: Spence

Spence — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:30:50 +0000

This is interesting. It doesn’t work in firefox or IE, but it sounds like it’ll be pretty big once it does. I work with flash sometimes, and one of the best things about flash is the feel of an instant update. Obviously, this is being implemented in Java Applets, so count that out. The ActionScript looks like it’s going to be replaced with CSS and PHP. Flash’s advantages are being taken out left and right. One thing that Adobe is working on, is getting the texts to be readable by Google and other search engines to solve the SEO problem. I once thought flash was the future, but now I’m having some second thoughts. I know some PHP and CSS, I started working with Java Applet just recently. The biggest downfall of flash is that you can’t really manipulate the entire page, unless the entire page is done in flash. I don’t like to do that. I like using flash in different parts of the site for things like style pickers for a user’s profile, or a music player. I don’t think all of FlashPlayer’s functions will be replaced until at least 5-10 years. (More leaning towards 5)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:04:17 +0000

This stuff needs to be added to if not the css 3 then at least the next css standard. Thats amazing, i have been waiting for the day when css will replace flash for years, i hope that day is getting closer.

By: Chris Hester

Chris Hester — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:45:14 +0000

Interesting stuff! No Flash required! But can you make the second example work on every click? I was disappointed I could only watch the animation once.

By: Thomas Dybdahl Ahle

Thomas Dybdahl Ahle — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:02:55 +0000

Many nonbrowser applications use webkit as an easy way to do advanced rendering.
Do anybody know if this css transitions stuff will let me move objects around by setting top:y; left:x ?

By: Ain Tohvri

Ain Tohvri — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:58:27 +0000

The above mentioned properties validate. Please see the CSS3 sample file. By my knowledge there is no way to write conditional style sheets for Safari.