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aiscott on Dec 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Path menu in pure CSS3

People like to push a technology as far as they can. It's part of the satisfaction of mastering a tech that you think of ways to push it beyond what is considered the comfort zone of that tech.

There might be some inherent value of avoiding javascript, but I think this is just a hack for the satisfaction of being able to do it.

sirn on Dec 4, 2011 [–]

> There might be some inherent value of avoiding javascript

CSS transitions are faster than JavaScript animations[1].

Browser could easily optimize them (since each keyframes are predefined) vs. DOM manipulation, which is always slow.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/CSS_animations

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