Spot on. I've grown sick of these "amazing" or "beautiful", it's very relative, CSS animations. As you say it looks like what Flash was at the worst of its time

Spot on. I've grown sick of these "amazing" or "beautiful", it's very relative, CSS animations. As you say it looks like what Flash was at the worst of its time or even before animated gif images were to geocities. I would be laughing if in a few years we'll look at these CSS3 animations the same way we look today at the ridiculous design of Geocities pages. If you look at very CSS-heavy website around + JavaScript it brings to its knees my poor old computer (it's ridiculous, it's only 2 years old), it feels bulky and laggy, prevent me from copying sometimes even looking at things... Doing complicated things with heavy CSS animation is (relatively) easy, but bringing to end users a simple yet elegant and useful design should be a webdesigner's job, not these hacky-scrolling features, stuff that swirl around making it impossible to copy or even to look at. For your nice CSS tricks leave it as easter eggs for your most attentive visitors, they'll love the feeling of having discovered something hidden. In CSS animations, less should be more.