CSS box-shadow Can Slow Down Scrolling

Re:CSS box-shadow Can Slow Down Scrolling by smackfu on Friday November 11, 2011 @02:46PM (#3225871)

What good is a fancy new feature if it hurts performance?

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Re:CSS box-shadow Can Slow Down Scrolling by jlarocco on Friday November 11, 2011 @04:32PM (#3226226)

Fancy new features have been hurting performance since the beginning. Nobody notices it because new, faster hardware makes it a non-issue.

For example, in 1998 I could browse the web perfectly fine on a 100 Mhz Pentium with 32 Mb of RAM. If new features didn't hurt performance then I would still be able to browse the web perfectly fine on a 100 Mhz Pentium today.

box-shadow is just a specific example. In five years even the crappiest smart phone will have enough CPU/GPU power to display box-shadows without any noticeable slow down.

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Re:CSS box-shadow Can Slow Down Scrolling by smackfu on Friday November 11, 2011 @05:20PM (#3226343)

Sorry, I disagree. If you sacrifice performance (and thus usability) for simple aesthetics, that's the wrong choice.

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Re:CSS box-shadow Can Slow Down Scrolling by rhizome on Sunday November 13, 2011 @01:12PM (#3231356)

I suppose you don't use a GUI, then?

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