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0 pointsnevir9y ago0 comments

CSS animations are generally on par with JavaScript, except when they're hardware accelerated.

But that's changing once web animations (https://w3c.github.io/web-animations/) hits mainstream anyway - both CSS & JS get access to the same engine.

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TD-Linux9y ago

The point of CSS animations isn't HW accel - you get that just from layerization. What it does get you is animations executing off the JS thread, so if you have piles of third party JS it won't cause frame drops.

nevirOP9y ago

Right, which you also get via the web animations API (queue up animations, and have them run on a separate thread)

at-fates-hands9y ago

Good point.

If you use Wordpress, like millions of people do, you will have a fuck ton of JS plugins running, so I can see where this would be advantageous.

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