CSS text filling with water

Or open it in Firefox.

In other words, if you're a Firefox user, open it in Chrome to see the actual effect.

Here I am looking for sine waves in the code. I need to think simpler.

This is pretty much how I feel most of the time. It often seems like simple things are hard and hard things are simple, and even after years and lots of different projects, I still end up playing "guess-and-check" with complicated centering stuff.

Hahahah, very true.

Actually, they're working on both. Flexbox[1] and grid layout for better layout, CSS animation for animation and effects.

Flexbox is usable in the latest versions of most browsers today[2]. Here's an example of declarative centering: http://jsfiddle.net/ac4ug/

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Flexi... [2]: http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox

Yeah, fuck having options! Is there SaaS that will let me ship my website in the form of a newspaper to my customers so they don't have to endure my fancy styles?

While I agree that CSS does go too far at times, I don't think this is one of them.

Some people want these effects. Without them, the choice is to write it all by hand using canvas, or use animated gifs or Flash or something.

Sure, there are varying levels of support of the most bleeding edge features, but browsers are catching up with each other all the time. For real world sites, you use what's widely available, which corresponds to the gee-whiz demos from 5 years ago (give or take, and depending on how many truly obsolete users you need to support). So yeah, this isn't really all that useful outside of a gee-whiz demo now, but in a few years all of the major browsers will support it and people can use it. This kind of effect is most likely to be used in a game that has a large asset library to load, but the underlying functionality can be useful in a variety of designs.

Yeah, it's a pity. There's a workaround for use in production, though I'd have to use an image instead of text.

The current wave of CSS3 effects are very much akin to the early days of Flash. Oftentimes it's a superfluous effect that hampers readability or usability, and I sincerely hope some lessons were learned from the Flash heyday. Just because you can move your content in 3D, add transitions and effects -- all in browser-native rules -- doesn't mean you should.

I'm on a pretty beefy Macbook most of the time and there are a lot of simple-looking sites that are almost impossible to use because of the slow-down from their page effects. The scrolling behavior from parallax or fixed effects really seem to be the worst.

If you want to see the next wave of CSS effects, just check out one of the old copypasta providers like DynamicDrive or FlashKit. ;)

I would try it out but is there any reason you're requesting so many permissions? That's scary. http://i.imgur.com/X62OVLt.png

It's a wavey background masked by the text, that loops scrolling horizontally, and increases in height to show loading progress. It uses the background-clip:text property that is not very widely supported, though.

Too much water lol

Hahah, there's that.