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Snow Stack shows off Safari's CSS visual effects
by Jay Hathaway Jul 20th 2009 at 9:00AM
Snow Stack is a demo of some slick visual effects using just HTML, WebKit CSS effects, and some Javascript. To see the live demo, you need to be running Snow Leopard and Safari, or Leopard and the latest nightly build of WebKit.
Snow Stack shows off a 3D wall of Flickr photos - if you're familiar with the Cooliris photo viewer, it looks a lot like that - and all the animation, reflection and transformation is done in CSS. If you're not on a Mac or can't run a new version of Safari, there's also a YouTube video that shows Snow Stack in action.
For developers, the source code and some useful development notes are available on the webpage, so you can check out how the demo was built.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
iGate said 10:24AM on 7-20-2009
wow thats sweet
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Niels van Dijk said 10:40AM on 7-20-2009
New CSS will bring great things in the future!
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