Test out requestAnimationFrame performance

[chrisjacob]

Hi Guys,

This might be a hair brained idea... and just a knee jerk issue post... But I wonder how requestAnimationFrame compares to setTimeout with the task you are performing?

Disclaimer: I don't know too much on the subject.

Alex MacCaw
‏@maccman
"I'm deferring any async rendering needed to requestAnimationFrame - it's so much faster. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.requestAnimationFrame"
Source: https://twitter.com/#!/maccman/status/190244937793671168

Also the pollyfill: "requestAnimationFrame for smart animating"
http://paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/

[caseyohara]

@chrisjacob Thanks for the tip. We'll run some tests and see which performs better. Since most retina devices will be running a WebKit browser, we can probably get away with using an experimental feature.