This post has a nice writeup on how this 3D view helped find an XSS vulnerability in a webapp: http://drewgoodwin.com/posts/2012/07/17/firefox-3d-view-help...
Firefox 3D view
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#12Are you still able to interact with the document whilst in 3d mode? e.g. test jQuery animations, etc (unfortunately can't try it myself)
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#13Oddly enough, I've actually used this exactly once. If you've got phantom elements sitting over something it can be quite useful to visualize them
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#14it's not new? that's why i'm using firefox as a developer. It is awesome!
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#15old news
still, pretty cool
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#16Nice feature but poor UI (controls) for me. Zoom (mousewheel) and rotate (left click) should take place around the cursor (or the 3d space it is currently hovering over) rather than the centre of the screen. Makes things much easier for the user (especially the power-user, who this is aimed at and can spare the 30-seconds to figure out how it works).
As an extra, clicking the mousewheel down should allow you to 'pan' (rather than 'rotate' on mouse1)...
Would make things much nicer...
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#17I opened a long page, tilted a little, reached the end, and pressed the down button to scroll the page up. Heavens! It's like watching the first scene of Star Wars.
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#18In a similar spirit, I wrote a crumpled paper web browser around an IE instance in WPF once:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sean_mcdirmid/archive/2009/07/27/a-w...
Not very useful, but a cool effect. Life is much better when we can host web browser instances as textures. Geometry (as in this case) would allow for even better effects; I feel bad that I never thought of that!
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#19"Use cases ... it looks awesome ". Heh.
It also makes pages with a billion wrapper divs look much thicker! Therefore I use it to get an impression of the weight/awkwardness of the DOM of a page.
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#20Go to facebook page and try it. It is almost like Manhattan in 3d