I don’t care for Flash, it’s badly optimized and has a bad habit of crashing your browser. So anything that helps reduce it’s usage is A okay in my book. It’s pretty amazing that this demo is only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Three little programming languages that I studied in school still advancing and developing over 10 years later. Hopefully this gets adopted as a web standard and passed into standard compliant browsers by fall.

If you like this pay a visit to the developer Charles Ying’s blog and leave him your praise.

I’ve been playing a lot lately with CSS3 elements on some personal projects. Sure the specification isn’t complete, and sure a certain company, which is busy trying to “kill” it’s competitors, is dragging it’s feet in making it’s browser support the new features, but it’s too much fun not play with it.

The amount of time you can shave off on development is pretty significant. Also between being able to use custom fonts, and create gradients and drop shadows, you find yourself able to drop Photoshop completely from certain projects.

It gets the thumbs up!