pisi/Reel — Issue #77: Leverage requestAnimationFrame
Author: pisi
Created: 2011-11-25 17:06:45+00:00
State: open
Labels: improvement, mobile

Recently, I've been toying with the potential, the still quite experimental function `requestAnimationFrame` has. Nice thing is that when supported by browser it is hardware accelerated, which promises much smoother animation timing and/or performance. Though much promising, the support for it is still quite scarce and especially mobile devices, which should benefit from it the most, lack the support very badly (I've tested iOS Safari and Android Webkit, none of them supported it at the time).

Results from the experiments are mixed - it indeed works. But without any perceivable benefit. Still think it will be a good upgrade once `requestAnimationFrame` comes out the experimental woods - especially on Android.