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joelackner
more clever working coming from you, hakim. love that the elements are still usable.
iamandrus
That's awesome! Keep up the great work. :D
ck2
Impressive. I wonder when Firefox will get the transformation support - not that it's very practical for anything right now.
hakim
They added support in FF10, so it should make it to their stable release in around two months.
jakubw
Cool. Christmas trees aren't flat though, you could have made it use the whole space rather than one plane. Merry Christmas.
seanp2k2
This tree is just as 3D as the trees in current state-of-the-art first person shooters.
saurik
Totally reminded me of: http://unicodexmas.com/ <- Christmas tree made out of "valid, semantic, and imageless HTML and CSS", ornamented with Unicode characters.
badclient
Freezes my iPhone.
kazoolist
Works fine (I presume slower than on a desktop; but certainly doesn't crash!) on my Galaxy Nexus.
Andrenid
Crashed the HN app on my iPhone4 too. Not that I'm surprised, it's a pretty heavy page for the phone to load.
callumjones
Fine on the iPhone 4. I suspect running the page through a UIWebView as opposed to MobileSafari will introduce the performance issues of application sandboxing.
seanp2k2
hahahahaha, I approve of this DOM debauchery.
jasondrowley
That's marvelous. Good work. And Merry Christmas!
bradleyland
I love that you can still click on the dropdowns and they work. You can also type in the text entry fields.
jerryr
I just spent way too much time catching and clicking all the radio buttons...
baddox
It was weird to click those elements on an iPhone and see mobile Safari's select dialog appear from the bottom of the screen, ruining the effect. :)
zobzu
works fine on (Gecko/FF10).
joejohnson
That looks pretty nice on an iPad :)
magoon
This was a trap for my iPhone 4 - I couldn't navigate away because it was so graphics intensive. I had to force quit then quickly load another page on startup.
theturtle32
It was fine on my iPhone 4.
logic
Surprisingly, this was usable on my iPhone 3G.
pkulak
Well, that completely destroyed my iPad 1.
eternalmatt
I was watching memory usage rapidly climb. Pretty fun though!
gary4gar
Caused Chrome on my Linux machine to crawl, CPU usage of my dual core CPU is about 100%!!

But its pretty cool as an experiment :)

baddox
Really? It ran quite smoothly on my iPhone 4S and my parents' ancient Athlon X2 3800+ (running Windows 7). It took 2-3 seconds to get going, but then it was quite smooth.
sopooneo
CSS Transforms on Chrome on Linux have been giving me problems even though they're fine on Windows or Mac Chrome.