3D CSS transforms available in Leopard via WebKit nightlies

A couple weeks ago, we noted that Apple’s 3D CSS Transforms were slowly coming to the desktop via Safari 4, at least on Snow Leopard. Over this past weekend, though, WebKit developers put in a small patch that enables 3D CSS transforms in the latest nightly build of WebKit for Leopard, too.

The WebKit team developed a series of two-dimensional transforms that can be applied with CSS properties, then added the ability to animate them over time. Those transforms were used for the Safari 4 “welcome page” that is loaded whenever Safari 4 is first launched. Mozilla recently implemented support for two-dimensional transforms in the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering engine, which is used in Firefox 3.5.

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