Ooh, the horror (animation does not belong to the presentation layer of your project!)
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Bram.us is the technical/geeky weblog of Bram Van Damme (nicknamed Bramus!), a 28 year old geezer raised in Deinze and living in
:hover, :active and :focus are interaction too – it’s a thin line.
Correction: :hover, :active and :focus are states / pseudo-classes / (parts of) selectors, which you get after/during an interaction (:rotated for example could be a new state).
The animation stuff proposed are CSS are no states, nor are they properties (I’ve got nothing against setting a
-webkit-transform: scale(1.0) rotate(45deg);, that’s fine and dandy)The animation is a bridge too far imo: the css syntax changes, it breaks the “structure-presentation-interaction” (xhtml-css-js) tripod, etc. … animation has no place in CSS, it should go in the JS part of the project.
Oh, if Apple/someone else were to define a css syntax where you can set a link to be opened in a popup (viz.
a.popup { click { target: popup; widt: 468px; height: 100px; border: true; }, color: #0000FF }), wouldn’t you find that gruesome/unethical/malpractice? I surely would I must say!Now think of it … where to we put that type of behavior nowadays? Oh yes, in the javascript