by kirupa | 8 November 2016
For the longest time, creating smooth and highly performant animations using only web technologies was very difficult. The browsers were slow, CSS properties weren't optimized for rapid updates, Flash ruled the roost, the graphics card didn't do much work, you had to walk 15 miles in the snow to get to school, and so on.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://www.kirupa.com/html5/creating_buttery_smooth_animations.htm