CSS 3 fake 3D cube rotation between 2 boxes

Question

I've implemented a flip rotation using css:

.flip-card {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 1;
    -webkit-perspective: 1000px;
    -moz-perspective: 1000px;
    -o-perspective: 1000px;
    perspective: 1000px;
}

.flip-card-content {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    -webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d;
    -webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;
    -moz-transform-style: preserve-3d;
    -moz-transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;
    -o-transform-style: preserve-3d;
    -o-transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;
    transform-style: preserve-3d;
    transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;
}

.flip-card.flip-x.flipped .flip-card-content,
.flip-card.flip-x .flip-card-side.flip-card-back {
    -webkit-transform: rotateX(180deg);
    -moz-transform: rotateX(180deg);
    -o-transform: rotateX(180deg);
    transform: rotateX(180deg);
}

.flip-card.flip-x-inverse.flipped .flip-card-content,
.flip-card.flip-x-inverse .flip-card-side.flip-card-back {
    -webkit-transform: rotateX(-180deg);
    -moz-transform: rotateX(-180deg);
    -o-transform: rotateX(-180deg);
    transform: rotateX(-180deg);
}

.flip-card.flip-y.flipped .flip-card-content,
.flip-card.flip-y .flip-card-side.flip-card-back {
    -webkit-transform: rotateY(180deg);
    -moz-transform: rotateY(180deg);
    -o-transform: rotateY(180deg);
    transform: rotateY(180deg);
}

.flip-card.flip-y-inverse.flipped .flip-card-content,
.flip-card.flip-y-inverse .flip-card-side.flip-card-back {
    -webkit-transform: rotateY(-180deg);
    -moz-transform: rotateY(-180deg);
    -o-transform: rotateY(-180deg);
    transform: rotateY(-180deg);
}

.flip-card-side {
    position: absolute;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
    -moz-backface-visibility: hidden;
    -o-backface-visibility: hidden;
    backface-visibility: hidden;
}

You can see an example here: http://jsfiddle.net/jckMg/

But, now I seen this amazing effect: http://tympanus.net/Development/CreativeLinkEffects/#cl-effect-19 And I want to reproduce the same transition, but I don't understand how it works, or better I understand that it makes use of pseudo selectors to "inject data", but I don't understand how to refactor my idea of having 2 divs switching between them instead of that. How can be done?

UPDATE:

The last experimental implementation is this: http://jsfiddle.net/w7y4N/ which works perfectly only in Firefox (in Chrome and Safari it's buggy)… can you fix it to be crossbrowser?

CSS 3 fake 3D cube rotation between 2 boxes

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