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Very impressive CSS3 demo: CSS3 Planetarium

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Re: Very impressive CSS3 demo: CSS3 Planetarium

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Something you can make in flash in like 10 minutes- and it works on everything ( not mobile ).

The only thing I can relate 'everything' with Flash is that everything spikes up. Seeing this demo I noticed no big spikes on CPU, etc.

Well I guess you won't get spikes on any version of IE since that can't even display it.

Re: Very impressive CSS3 demo: CSS3 Planetarium

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Something you can make in flash in like 10 minutes- and it works on everything ( not mobile ).

We might as well just drop the whole idea of HTML, JS and CSS and just use 3rd party plugins to replace the whole thing. That totally makes sense. Innovation is for idiots.

The only "innovative" thing about this is- its not flash. The reason its not flash is because front end developers, hate flash with a passion that borders, frothing at the mouth psychosis. They hate flash because very simply it takes work off of their desk. At the end of the day, a client still won't want to pay twice as much for something that works on half of modern browsers when in reality his high school kid could have done it in 10 minutes with flash, (unless its for mobile). Its the same stupid argument I've heard for the past 10 years, but the difference today is mobile platforms won't support flash (or it just sucks on mobile) and there is finally an opportunity to kill flash. That pretty much sums it up. Haters will hate, client will still pay for flash, flash sucks on mobile, lame slide shows are not innovative.
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