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A comment on 60 FPS Animations with CSS3. Parent comment

Re:60 FPS Animations with CSS3 by paulddraper on Monday July 10, 2017 @08:58PM (#14740850)
Similar experiences.

CSS3 animations are cool because they have the potential to be superior, but 3 out of 4 times it seems that the equivalent JS/$.animate is smoother and more consistent.

It's the not the reality I want, but it's the one I've been shown.

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Re:60 FPS Animations with CSS3 by SOLAR_FIELDS on Monday July 10, 2017 @11:24PM (#14741359)
It's very situational. I built a rich SPA with lots of animations a few years ago and sometimes I would have no issues and other times animations would chug on one or two browsers. I haven't done animation work in the past couple of years but I used GSAP for that product and it was great. It's very tough to navigate the animation world because fades work great in context A on FireFox but work like crap in the same context on Safari. You might see the opposite on context B with a different animation.

Hopefully in a few more years we will see better and more consistent performance across all browsers, but we aren't quite there yet with CSS

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