CSS Animation

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Safari have announced a new CSS feature, animation specified in CSS. Giving the designer the ability to code transitions such as fading out, and rotating elements on the page. All gracefully degrading for browsers which don't support it (which I imagine will be most).

While it's interesting, I'm rather worried that we'll be going back to the days of the "blink" and "marquee" HTML tags (*shudder*), where it'll just pop up on every site and we'll be overloaded with fading panels and ads which spin into view.

According to the article, they're planning on proposing these changes to be included in the CSS spec. As yet, I am undecided if this is a good thing or not. On the one hand, it's nice to see some expansion on CSS, but on the other hand... rotation effects?!..

I guess I'll just wait and see how this one turns out.

Tags : CSS, Design