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Transitions and Transforms weren't available in 1999. Proper CSS animation with keyframes was first available in 2009 and even then browser support wasn't great -- lots of polyfills like 'moz-' and 'webkit-' were required.

jQueryUI was miles ahead in terms of delivering cross-browser compatible UI animation, so why bother with CSS3 animation which wouldn't work on IE8?



A modern jQuery UI could go such a long way.

I suppose Bootstrap fits this bill in a lot of ways but I feel like jQuery UI was even easier


Problem with jQuery UI was that it was bloated and came right at a time where bootstrap was taking off, IIRC. jQuery mobile didn't help much either.

The theming support was kind of nice though.




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