I wonder how much of this is in direct response to Adobe's influence on web animation via Flash and if CSS Effects has in some way influenced Apple's decision t

I wonder how much of this is in direct response to Adobe's influence on web animation via Flash and if CSS Effects has in some way influenced Apple's decision to avoid putting Flash on the iPhone (beyond some of the current technical issues). Clearly CSS Effects has a long way to go before it matches the capabilities of Flash and it will be interesting to see how the Microsoft, Mozilla and the standards bodies respond. Regardless, this is a very interesting development and it will be nice to have some open choices in web animation. Now hopefully we don't start seeing thousands of websites with falling leaves and bouncing boxes.