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How ambitious is the full set of CSS3's 3D properties (finalized and those still in testing)?

• I am wondering just what sort of 3D graphics can be achieved with CSS3's full set of 3D properties. I get the distinct impression that they don't touch the 3D graphics capabilities of Flash 11, Silverlight 5, or WebGL. I'm assuming that CSS3 doesn't have any sort of shader support. True or false? I also assume that it doesn't have the performance (sheer number of primitives per second), etc. Am I wrong? Educate me.

• Answer:

  Your terminology isn't completely accurate. CSS doesn't have tags, it has rules and properties used in these rules to style HTML elements (or "tags"). That said, I take it the gist of your question is to know how much you can do with CSS 3D Transforms. Despite the name, CSS 3D Transforms aren't real 3D. What these CSS3 properties provide is a way to lay out flat 2D elements in 3D space, sometimes referred to as 2.5D. You can apply and combine translate, scale and rotate commands, in all of the x, y and z axes or even provide 4x4 matrices. Then, combining with the properties defined in the CSS Transition and CSS Animation specifications, you can create compelling animated effects as you move from one 3D transform to another. There is however a complementing technology called WebGL which gives developers the features of OpenGL|ES in a Web browser via the <canvas> HTML element. This allows the drawing of polygons and application of shaders. It's a very different beast, but an extremely powerful one.