Pure CSS animated 3D Super Mario Icon

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Well, it's interesting accomplishment no doubt, but the CSS markup is littered with Webkit-specific commands. If the point of CSS is to achieve at least a modicum of platform-independence, isn't the purely academic?

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-3d-transforms/

But generally the CSS spec seems to be increasing faster than vendors implement it. Or rather every vendor is creating new extensions and pushing for them to go into the standard so their effort isn't just for fun, leading to the bloat.

Ultimately, yes, but the standard hasn't been ratified yet. Prefixes are an important part of the process that moves CSS forward. It gives browser developers an opportunity to show their stuff without breaking the non-prefixed declaration. This means that your prefixed code can continue to work, even after the standard has been ratified. This isn't a perfect solution, but it's far better than browser sniffing because it's explicit and easy to find/replace once standards exist.

Eric Meyer breaks it down very well:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prefix-or-posthack/

"Now we can build your spinning red logo in CSS!"

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