The webkit team is on a roll with the CSS Transforms … not the last paragraph (At the moment transforms do not affect layout, so they are similar to relative positioning in that respect. We are exploring ideas for how to do transforms in ways that could affect layout.) and then read bullet #3 of the first question of the interview with the CSS3 team. Still lots of work ahead, but if one vendor is pioneering, the rest will hopefully follow … (only rotate was suggested in the CSS3 spec, not?)