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What did people do before CSS transforms? I've been making an app with React Native and react-native-svg and even though react-native-svg supports transformati
by orangegreen 5y ago
What did people do before CSS transforms?
I've been making an app with React Native and react-native-svg and even though react-native-svg supports transformations, I've had to do a lot of transforms with trigonometry (i.e. rotating a shape around a center point, then getting the new bounding box, which requires things such as Math.atan2).
It's made me really appreciate 1. how much easier front end web development is and 2. how far we've gotten. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate web methods like getBoundingClientRect() or element.closest(), and how easy it is to make animations with CSS and move things around with transforms.
- armandososa 5y agoWe mostly used boxy layouts, sliced up images and flash hacks.
- armandososa 5y agoIf you're genuinely curious, The CSS Zen Garden[1] is a great testimony of what people was able to accomplish with the the limitations of CSS2 while keeping support for IE6. That meant: A limited number of fonts, 1 channel transparency, no flexbox or grid for layouts, just floats and positioning. Fun times. [1]http://www.csszengarden.com/ http://www.csszengarden.com/
- legrande 5y ago> What did people do before CSS transforms? They used Flash. You can now do everything you could do in Flash, with CSS[0]. There's even a few GUI tools[1] for CSS where you don't have to figure out the code: [1] https://enjoycss.com/ https://enjoycss.com/ [1] http://selfcss.org/ http://selfcss.org/ [0] Edit: And Javascript
- edoceo 5y agoBoth of those block usage on mobile device. Is this irony?
- legrande 5y agoTry spoofing the useragent, or if your browser supports requesting a 'desktop version', then use that. I wouldn't use a phone to code though
- rchaud 5y ago> You can now do everything you could do in Flash, with CSS. AND JavaScript. With Flash, you just needed to know Flash. With HTML5, you need to know a whole lot more about DOM manipulation. If you're animating SVGs, that has its own markup and learning curve. Flash could also do 3D animation, which CSS cannot. You need to know WebGL and a library like three.js for that to be workable. By far the best WYSIWIG animation tool I've used is Tumult Hype for Mac. It handles the creation of all the JS-based animation triggers through the GUI. I hope there will be a WebGL version of this that is as easy to use.
- legrande 5y ago> Flash could also do 3D animation, which CSS cannot Saw a few Codepens over the years[0] where people managed to rotate 3D cubes, all done entirely with CSS. Of course if you needed to interact with the cube you would need JS, but 3D can be achieved with CSS alone, it's just a very hacky way of doing it. [0] https://codepen.io/mehra_as/pen/KRKPBq https://codepen.io/mehra_as/pen/KRKPBq
- 6510 5y agoYou can do interactions with hover, [hidden] check boxes, focus and even anchors.
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- Jaygles 5y agoThis is a CSS only 3d thing I did a while ago as an exercise. Its a bit buggy but still pretty neat https://jaygles.github.io/city-block/ https://jaygles.github.io/city-block/
- MonaroVXR 5y agoSomeone made the new iMac with CSS
- mumphster 5y agohttps://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_3dtransforms.asp https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_3dtransforms.asp
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago>[0] Edit: And Javascript And SVG! ..and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.
- grishka 5y agoHowever, Flash was really easy to get into. You didn't need any programming whatsoever if all you wanted was a vector cartoon. And you did need to copy-paste some ActionScript if you wanted a fancy-looking navigation bar. Current web lacks this ease of authoring, so I wouldn't say "you can now do everything you could do in Flash". Flash also felt more like a proper application framework. Web still feels like you're working with an extremely advanced word processor.
- dmitriid 5y ago> What did people do before CSS transforms? What sibling comments said, and also jQuery helper functions such as $.fade [1] or GSAP [2] [1] https://api.jquery.com/fadeIn/#fadeIn-duration-complete https://api.jquery.com/fadeIn/#fadeIn-duration-complete [2] https://greensock.com/gsap/ https://greensock.com/gsap/
- crazygringo 5y agoI mean, CSS transforms aren't really that useful for regular static layout webpages, so people didn't mostly need them. Probably the main thing they're most useful for is animation, and people just used jQuery/JavaScript for that instead, which could do most of what you'd want, if a little clunky.