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A comment on 60 FPS Animations with CSS3. Parent comment

Re:60 FPS Animations with CSS3 by whowouldathunk on Monday July 10, 2017 @02:34PM (#14738485)
> There is absolutely no reason why browsers have to use the native compositor for CSS.

Sure, but you're basically re-implementing big parts of the OS in the browser. Which is maybe not a bad idea, but at some point there's inception.

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Re:60 FPS Animations with CSS3 by pcwalton on Monday July 10, 2017 @03:21PM (#14738841)
There's a good reason to, in this case: that the OS compositor is not designed to render the full generality of CSS.

The status quo is not working: only about half of CSS animations in the wild run on the compositor. As browser vendors, we need to admit that the attempt to carve out a limited, fast subset of CSS has failed, and we should do the hard work to make all of CSS run fast.

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