The fun part – IE CSS transitions

Let’s start from the dessert. Although there are a few people nowadays using Firefox and other browsers (including yours truly) 79% of the web population is still enslaved by the evil Internet Explorer. To make up for the “evil” part the un-secure IE is packed with features that other browsers are incapable of reproducing or only starting to implement (such as rich text editing in Firefox).  One of those features is the CSS transitions which have been around for ages and are unbelievably easy to apply. In fact they are so easy to apply that the feature has been terribly overused on many poorly designed web sites (remember the circle-in animation you are forced to view when you trying to leave a page?) That of course, some would say, is browser’s fault and not responsibility of the designer. As always I would disagree and be happy to utilize the feature in our application.