Re: transitions vs. animations

Brad Kemper wrote:

 > > "transform" is much more than "move". It encompasses translation,  
 > > scale, rotate, skew, perspective, combinations of those and even a  
 > > few interesting transformations that can't be represented by those  
 > > primitives. As for "transform" being too close to "translation", I  
 > > don't share your confusion and I think it would be a mistake to  
 > > change the name to something less descriptive because they look a  
 > > bit close to you. Just look at them for a while, you'll get used to  
 > > it :-)
 > 
 > Sorry. I meant to say 'translate', not 'transform'. This probably  
 > proves a point of some kind.

It does. We see it all the time, even in the CSS WG meeting where
people have been looking at this for a while.

I think transitions will be a big hit, they will change the web. We
have the power to give it a likable name. The name we give it will
aquire the meaning we want.

One example: "margin". In traditional typography, it wouldn't be
accurate to refer to the "margin between paragraps" -- a margin is
traditionally the space that surrounds the content of a page. Still,
the term has worked well in CSS, and all elements have margins around
them. I don't think people have been confused.

There are several good alternatives to 'transition':

   shift: left 1s;
   change: left 1s; 
   flux: left 1s;
   phase: left 1s;

E.g., "CSS shifts" is a marketable term.

-h&kon
              Håkon Wium Lie                          CTO °þe®ª
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Received on Friday, 9 April 2010 20:42:45 UTC