Call me a cynic, but “posts like this one on the Surfin’ Safari blog”:http://webkit.org/blog/130/css-transforms worry me a little. Let me explain…
I don’t know if anyone remembers back to the days of Netscape 4 and Explorer 3.5? – It was a time of table based layouts and browser sniffing. Each browser had it’s own “feature” set and this resulted in hacks galore, for example Netscape had “Layers” but Explorer didn’t, Explorer had feature X but Netscape didn’t.
Along came “Web Standards”:http://www.w3c.org and the likes of “Jeffrey Zeldman”:http://www.zeldman.com fighting for a standards based approach to web development. Over a decade on, it looks like were finally getting there as _even_ Microsoft _slowly_ start to get things right with IE7.
As cool as the “CSS Transform”:http://webkit.org/blog/130/css-transforms stuff looks, I can’t help but thing we’re stepping right back into 1995.
What does everyone else think?
2 comments ↓
Your right. You can like a standard or dislike it. You might hate the fact the most standards on data are xml but they are the standards. We all should work on improve them and not impose our very own closed dialect.
If they forked css and extended it now the process should be to merge it into branch. Talking like a developer, ofc. But the same applies to standards..
How are things Nuno? We now have Miguel working with us thanks to your recommendation.
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