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CSS Movement and Animation: Beginnings

I have been playing around with my dropcaps and came upon this reference:

The demos used here are very functional, but imagine the doors to decorative typography this could open up! In principle we’ll be free to use many familiar properties on the initial letter, including:

  • All familiar font properties
  • Color and opacity
  • Text-shadow and other text decoration
  • Transform properties
  • and how about some background-clip action?

This got me thinking about using css for movement in general. Which got me thinking about how movement using css, in the wrong hands, could really ruin the user experience.

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