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background-clip? Sometimes I think CSS has gone a bit too far. Sure, at first it was wholly insufficient, but now it seems to have gone overboard the other way,
by sdfjkl 13y ago
background-clip? Sometimes I think CSS has gone a bit too far. Sure, at first it was wholly insufficient, but now it seems to have gone overboard the other way, sprouting too many obscure features, with greatly varying support between implementations to boot.
- iLoch 13y agoYeah, fuck having options! Is there SaaS that will let me ship my website in the form of a newspaper to my customers so they don't have to endure my fancy styles?
- lbebber 13y agoWhile I agree that CSS does go too far at times, I don't think this is one of them.
- lambda 13y agoSome people want these effects. Without them, the choice is to write it all by hand using canvas, or use animated gifs or Flash or something. Sure, there are varying levels of support of the most bleeding edge features, but browsers are catching up with each other all the time. For real world sites, you use what's widely available, which corresponds to the gee-whiz demos from 5 years ago (give or take, and depending on how many truly obsolete users you need to support). So yeah, this isn't really all that useful outside of a gee-whiz demo now, but in a few years all of the major browsers will support it and people can use it. This kind of effect is most likely to be used in a game that has a large asset library to load, but the underlying functionality can be useful in a variety of designs.