Re: [css3-transforms] translate() vs. translate3d()

Yes,
scaleOrientation seems complex, but you could always hide that complexity
in a tool.

Flash has a rotateX, rotateY and rotateZ that map to skewX/Y/Z in the
application that just rotate the element around an axis. Designers very
often uses this to mimic a 3D transform without actually having to know
about perspective, projection, etc. (My son's game system is using this
effect in many animations)
It would be nice if there was a way to somehow express it in CSS/SVG...

Rik


On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Chris Marrin <cmarrin@apple.com> wrote:

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> On Feb 10, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Rik Cabanier wrote:
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> > Hi Chris,
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> > I agree that's a much better way of doing skew. It also avoid the
> discontinuity that you see if skew approaches 90deg.
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> > I've asked for this in the past but people didn't like it since it
> didn't match SVG. Maybe we could give it a different name...
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> Maybe, but I'm not sure more API is the way to go. I really wish we could
> get rid of skew to be honest. I think it's too difficult to get your head
> around a 2 dimensional skew, much less 3 dimensional! I hate to invoke it's
> name, but in VRML we had the notion of a scaleOrientation, which was an
> axis/angle 3D rotation that you would use to set the orientation of the
> scale application. It gave a really intuitive way of "skewing" an object in
> 3 dimensions. Maybe that's too much of a change here, and it would more of
> a divergence from SVG. But I think it would be more intuitive for authors.
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> cmarrin@apple.com
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