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Be afraid, be very very afraid!

You get me my Cheez Whiz, boy?

Along with all that sweet, sweet syntactic sugar that HTML5 gives us and cool properties in CSS3 like border-radius, I've been aware of a part of the CSS3 specification that has me more terrified than the days when I had to endure the <marquee> tag.

I'm talking of transition effects, and depending on your flavour of browser you call it in one of these ways:

transition-duration: 0.40s;
transition-timing-function: ease-out;
-khtml-transition-duration: 0.40s;
-khtml-transition-timing-function: ease-out;
-moz-transition-duration: 0.40s;
-moz-transition-timing-function: ease-out;
-o-transition-duration: 0.40s;
-o-transition-timing-function: ease-out;
-webkit-transition-duration: 0.40s;
-webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out;

I can already see this being abused by script kiddies and people on sites like Tumblr using this to death. TO DEATH. When this become mainstream, there will be parts of the net that will be unbearable to use again. Not to say with gratuitous animated gifs and JavaScript they're not doing this, but still!

Save us!

Giorgio Maone over at NoScript has taken it upon himself to modify the plugin of late to help protect us from lots of elements rather than just automatically loaded JS. His extension made Firefox the first browser to respect the proposed DNT opt outs before Mozilla, Apple, Google and Microsoft had. It helps to prevents XSS attacks and in a pinch can block content being automatically loaded in with HTML5's <video> and <audio> tags. More than any other browser or browser extension, NoScript quite literally makes the net usable.

I'm sure Giorgio could block transitions and timing effects too, just so we don't have to go into our preferences files and manually add overrides. As I said, he's done a great job proactively including new features to guard against threats, and I believe gratuitous use of these transitions could be the greatest threat to our collective sanity since Windows Aero and hip hop.

Good grief I'm nearly 25, but this post makes me sound like I'm in my 70s. Hey you kids, get off my lawn!

Thanks to はしりべ (member 1790437) on Pixiv ;).

Got an email from DeviantArt this morning:

Come to Austin, TX and hang out at our devMEET! OR just buy the t-shirt.

According to Expedia, a flight on United with one stop from Sydney to Austin is $1,636. That's a pretty expensive meetup and/or shirt ;)

Curiously, the cheapest flight from Singapore to Austin is on All Nippon Airways, probably goes via Narita.

This post originally appeared on the Annexe, in a post series pointlessly documenting every train I took.

S56 from Bardwell Park to Central

Cleanliness: Average

Links shared from del.icio.us today:

About PIE – CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE

"PIE stands for Progressive Internet Explorer. It is an IE attached behavior which, when applied to an element, allows IE to recognize and display a number of CSS3 properties."

(categories: design css ie microsoft browser)

This post originally appeared on the Annexe.

The web is abuzz with the news! The girls from everyone's favourite moeblob series K-On! will be continuing their adventures in the covers of Manga Time Kirara, as university students. Azusa and co will also be still kicking around in Manga Time Kirara Carat forming the next iteration of the Light Music Club. Will they be punk rockers like everyone's favourite sensei, or will they be gorging on cake? Or will they forge a NEW path… one with punk rocking cake?! Time will tell.

One thing is for sure, the tidal wave of negativity from holier than thou anime fans who can't accept the fact nobody is forcing them to watch or read the series will be stronger and more vocal than ever. Oh well, if it makes them happy… let them eat cake ;).

Any other Australians saw the Word for Mac 2011 icon and thought of Big W?

This post originally appeared on the Annexe.

Eerily street lamp-lit flowers and a weirdly placed sign.

A poet I am not XD

This post originally appeared on the Annexe, in a post series pointlessly documenting every train I took.

R25 from Bardwell Park to Museum

Cleanliness: Poor!

This post originally appeared on the Annexe, in a post series pointlessly documenting every train I took.

M22 from Museum to Bardwell Park