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CSS To Get Support For Trigonometry Functions (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

CSS, or the language that styles and arranges how page elements appear on a website, will soon get support for trigonometry functions such as sine, cosine, tangent, and others, ZDNet is reporting. From the report: The new trigonometry functions were approved at the end of February in a meeting of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) CSS Working Group. The new functions approved and set to join the CSS standard are: Sine - sin(), cosine - cos(), tangent - tan(), arccosine - acos(), arcsine - asin(), arctangent - atan(), arctangent (of two numbers x and y) - atan2(), square root - sqrt(), square root of the sum of squares of its arguments - hypot(), and power of - pow().

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  1. Re:Why? by GeLeTo · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is needed for CSS animations. Now you can do some things like moving an object along a sine path with CSS transitions, but this will be more powerful and in many cases - more intuitive.

  2. Re:Trigonometry functions?! by dmt0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually that exists in native CSS: https://developer.mozilla.org/...

    Alas, as long as you need support for dreaded IE11, you're out of luck: https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-...