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People are gushing because it's a 3D animation with holographic effects, which is pretty surprising to be able to achieve for a primarily-2D layout language.

I've never seen something this seamless and realistic built in flash.

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It’s a layer on top of the card that shifts based on how you move it. It’s very, very simple to do in flash.

So something that used to take a $299 software package and required every user to install a browser plugin can be done natively in-browser with few lines of CSS, that's great!

Few lines of esoteric, inaccessible CSS compared to something a child could do in flash.

yup. but after 2 decades and even makes HN devs go wow! and still locks the browser after scrolling 2 pages (chrome).. its very difficult to understand the point that op makes unless you were an experienced developer on flash. I get the same feeling when i see nocode/lowcode tools..[1]

1. https://youtu.be/SY3Y8gb3jYA?t=1380

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