Interactive CSS3 lighting effects

The shadow can translate to a lot of other things, and that's the first thing I noticed.

it's not just CSS3; there's some javascript too.

Flat glossy?! Did you see where they mentioned "specular highlights?" Proof positive.

Gotta start somewhere.

I really don't mind that sort of phrase when it's pointing out that the cutting-edge features that they are demonstrating, while they are on the standards track, currently work best in a particular browser.

On an actual production web page? Sure, that's awful. Blocking people on other browsers from viewing (like Apple did with their HTML5 showcase)? Yeah, that's bad. Demonstrating a technique that still requires vendor prefixes, and not applying all of the vendor prefixes that work? Well, that's just lazy.

But informing people that the effects you are demonstrating work best in a particular browser because the other browsers don't happen to implement those features yet, or aren't fully compatible yet, isn't bad. It's just preventing confusion for people who come there and don't see the given effect.

In order for web standards to progress, we need experimentation. We need early implementations, that test out the space, and we need designers who try out these implementations and see what you can do with them. And yeah, when that happens, they will be experimenting with features that aren't supported everywhere, and will create examples that only work on one or two browsers.

Complain when you see this in production. Complain when you see people recommending user agent sniffing. But for early stage experimentation? It's not a problem.

Maybe more like a llama - still around but nowhere near as useful or in the same numbers. Llamas were like the cows of the Aztec era.

Pop that baby open in Safari.

Use a webkit browser.

I'm on Linux, so Chrome is all I've got.