Recently Safari 3.1 has been released for Mac and Windows, boasting a whole load of useful new features. One of these is support for CSS transforms – i.e. you can translate, scale, and rotate HTML elements in a web page.
CSS transforms can come in quite handy for making complex dynamic objects, without the need for 3rd party plugins or applets. For example i was able to make the following BBC-esque analogue clock, using only DIV’s and JavaScript :
(Note that currently this only works in Safari 3.1)
Yes, DIV’s and JavaScript. No Canvas, no Flash, no SilverLight, no Java Applets, no Plugins.
It makes me wonder, considering that browsers seem to be getting so powerful nowadays, should one really bother using Flash & co anymore?
