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Apparently transparent – CSS3D HTML5 Experiment

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Re: Apparently transparent – CSS3D HTML5 Experiment

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Do not look away. Do not blink. Quite beautiful, code and result.

Once I see the demo I had exactly same feeling! So I made this: http://demos-sxx.rhcloud.com/apparently-transparent/

When I try to load it, the images only load part-way. :(

Re: Apparently transparent – CSS3D HTML5 Experiment

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Tell that to the boss

If you're the developer that's your job to tell that to your boss. Come up with analytics to support your findings, make your case, he's probably not going to be reading this thread and staying up to date on all the latest and greatest that's your job. He may be stubborn or you might find out that your user base is all IE6 I don't know but sitting around complaining isn't going to get you anywhere either :)

Come up with analytics to support your findings

Analytics are irrelevant when you're writing some huge internal service for a company whose conservative upgrade policy dictates that only one older browser will be installed and used company-wide until God-knows-when.

By the way, glancing at a few browser market share websites, it looks like IE8 and IE9 are alive and well, totaling around the same as IE11.

Re: Apparently transparent – CSS3D HTML5 Experiment

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So CSS can do 3D, but still not vertically center multiline text in a straightforward way?

Aren't you comparing the capability to do 3D with the straightforwardness of vertical centering, though? Certainly CSS has the capability to do vertical centering of multiline text, and I wouldn't call the 3D rendering strategy in this experiment amazingly straightforward---in fact, the cleverness of the technique is one of the things that makes this experiment so cool.

Re: Apparently transparent – CSS3D HTML5 Experiment

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Flexbox, or display: table-cell. These have been supported for a while now – you're not going to get old browser support, but they're not going to support 3D features either, so your complaint is either flame bait or ignorance.

> These have been supported for a while now For Safari still the -webkit prefix is required which is a bit odd

Webkit keeps prefixes usually because it is not implemented fully and it is an experimental feature. They began unprefixing flexbox in Sept. 2014, I don't know when it's gonna ship.

Though, its super unfair that the Web Inspector in Webkit uses unprefixed Flexbox (http://trac.webkit.org revision 173707).

Re: Apparently transparent – CSS3D HTML5 Experiment

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something wrong with flex box?

no IE8 and IE9 support...

Fallback for IE8 and IE9, display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; Note that the element needs an explicit height for this to work...

Re: Apparently transparent – CSS3D HTML5 Experiment

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Tell that to the boss

If you're the developer that's your job to tell that to your boss. Come up with analytics to support your findings, make your case, he's probably not going to be reading this thread and staying up to date on all the latest and greatest that's your job. He may be stubborn or you might find out that your user base is all IE6 I don't know but sitting around complaining isn't going to get you anywhere either :)

Lol I am hardly "sitting around and complaining." At my last agency gig we had to support down to IE6 for several months until we built a strong case to only support down to IE8. Even still it was much harder and protracted battle than it should have been.
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