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Wilya on Jan 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: OSX Lion in CSS3

Turning Javascript off (or at least manually whitelisting via NoScript) also can give a quite big performance boost, by simply turning off many useless effects.

Making CPU-hungry CSS3 kind of defeats that purpose, of course.

silvestrov on Jan 22, 2012 [–]

Some CSS3 effects are implemented using the GPU, so animating using CSS can be much faster than animating using Javascript.

See the Netflix talk which has a lot of info about using GPU accelerated animations for e.g. scrolling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuMWhto62Eo

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