Follow up to the CSS Google Doodle - Accurate this time

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48 points·binarydreams··9 comments

The cool/frustrating thing:

If I would have coded this (in whatever language), it would have been way more than 36 lines of html and 117 lines of CSS.

What do you mean? I think it would probably be shorter in most languages given the right toolkit.

He's alluding to his own coding ability being inferior to the author's (I presume).

You are correct, I alluded to that. I thought about how I would have coded that as a native App (Java/Objective-C). Or just done it straight in C/C++ with Image-Loading, Image placement, different colors, a Button and then the animation.

Yep, but if you from this opportunity your next implementation will be a little shorter...

This is a really excellent example of the animation potential in CSS. I haven't looked, but I wouldn't be surprised if in the next year or so, a number of libraries are released with the sole purpose of helping actionscript-and-flash developers cross the chasm into CSS-and-HTML development.

Since I wanted to experiment with the parameters, I took the liberty of putting the author's code in a fiddle:

http://jsfiddle.net/AAKcP/1/

You won't be surprised, but checkout Project Bikeshed, which was just demoed at JSConf: http://bike.sh/

Pretty cool stuff!

Disappointed there's no prefixes for IE :(

Is that really dissapointing ? IE does not support CSS3 Animations yet, and by the time it supports them, it won't have a market share :P

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