#css3 transform

[learnmaniac]

Add Blurred text effect to your site’s navigational menu

[htmluse]

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snabbt.js - Minimalistic animation library

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snabbt.js is a minimalistic javascript animation library. It focuses on moving things around. It will translate, rotate, scale, skew and resize your elements. By including matrix multiplication operations, transforms can be combined in any way you want. The end result is then set via CSS3 transform matrices.

snabbt.js is built to be fast. It will only animate things that modern browsers can animate cheaply: transforms and opacity. The goal is to make a library that will let the user make smooth animations without needing to know too much about browser rendering.

Note: For convenience, width and height are animatable too, but beware since they may cause page reflows and slow down your animations.

  Limitations

All transforms work on pixels or radians. Any unit conversion has to be done beforehand.

No abritrary property animations, e.g. colors, padding, margin or line height animations.

For performance reasons, snabbt.js never queries the DOM. This means that in some cases you need to store end transforms yourself.

[markwyner]

Design studio Quick Left maximized use of the CSS3 transform property with a hint of javascript. But not gratuitously; they employed it for practical use.

Their site opens with a simple masthead comprising a large logo and navigation. Scrolling reduces the size of the logo and the impact of the overall masthead so that it becomes an aside to the introductory content. The minimized masthead is then carried throughout the rest of the website. I love it.

[dragoni]

A practical reason for using transform!

With the transform property, we are able to rotate this chevron 45deg, 90deg, 180deg, obviously and indefinitely to create many different forms from the same template.

.icon { width: 20px; height: 20px; display: block; background: url('sprite.png') no-repeat -20px 0; }

To create right arrow, add the following:

-webkit-transform: rotate(90deg); -moz-transform: rotate(90deg); transform: rotate(90deg);

[dragoni]

HTML5, CSS3, and DOM Performance (by GoogleDevelopers)