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by clemesha 5610 days ago
Every time I see CSS3/HTML5 demos like this, I think "awesome, but what's the IE situation?". I mean that in a honest way, not in a "oh, that probably will never work on IE type of way".

IE9 is supposedly way better than before - will it support stuff like this?

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IE introduced expression() in CSS decades ago. Like -webkit-transform, they are both private non-standard way of doing animations. IE4/5/6 even had hardware accelerated 3D graphic and dynamic music support, dHTML was cool before HTML5 coolkids took over.
It’s quite disingenuous to compare CSS transform to expression().
expression() gives you a functional method for defining animations; CSS transforms are declarative. They’re a different thing entirely.

Besides, expression evaluates on mousemove which is horrible for performance: http://blog.dynatrace.com/2010/02/16/the-real-performance-ov...

There are also DXImageTransform filter and VML
CSS 2D Transforms - yes. 3D - nobody knows.