v2.9.5 — Blur No More

Solar Bar Card - Releases

v2.9.5 — Blur No More

Performance

• Massive GPU usage reduction: The battery flow animation was consuming up to 50% GPU on modern hardware (including an RTX 3090) due to a feGaussianBlur SVG filter applied to a path that was simultaneously running a 60fps SMIL stroke-dashoffset animation. When a filter is combined with a SMIL animation, the browser cannot cache the rasterized output — it re-rasterizes the full element and re-runs the blur kernel on every frame, indefinitely. The filter has been removed; the animated dashed line and flow particles are fully preserved.

• Eliminated transition: all on interactive elements: Five elements (.battery-indicator, .grid-icon, .house-icon, .bar-segment, .ev-icon) used transition: all 0.3s ease, which forces the browser to track and interpolate every CSS property simultaneously on any state change — including paint-heavy properties like box-shadow and background. Each is now scoped to only the properties that actually animate (transform, background-color, border-color, etc.).

• Battery SOC bar now uses GPU compositing: The battery fill bar switched from width: X% (triggers layout reflow) to transform: scaleX(X) (GPU-composited, zero layout cost). The redundant border-radius on the fill was also removed — the parent container's overflow: hidden already handles clipping.

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