"It's amazing that we get solutions for things that no-one really needs (animated 3d transitions...)"
I believe you will see some really amazing animated 3d ransitions used in production very soon, and they happen to be necessarily for the user experience, reducing needed document space for larger amounts of visual blocks.. at least in the projects I know they are being developed on.
CSS 3D is lovely, but it would be nice if they -- Apple, Microsoft, Firefox, and (especially) Google -- took care of freaking business.
The latest Chrome on Windows has completely screwed up select controls for no apparent reason -- they do things like fade and zoom in, but don't actually work properly (I'm a Mac guy, but our Windows guy has been cursing Chrome for days).
I believe you will see some really amazing animated 3d ransitions used in production very soon, and they happen to be necessarily for the user experience, reducing needed document space for larger amounts of visual blocks.. at least in the projects I know they are being developed on.