Use requestAnimationFrame instead of setInterval, save cpu cycles for animation

[Tin]

Use requestAnimationFrame instead of setInterval, save cpu cycles for animation when this api is available. This helps slowly android browsers a bit.

[rsaccon]

another option, which combines both (requstAnimationFrame and setInteral) is described by Joe Lambert: http://blog.joelambert.co.uk/2011/06/01/a-better-settimeoutsetinterval/

[joelambert]

@rsaccon the code in question can also be found/forked here: https://gist.github.com/1002116

It offers the performance improvements of requestAnimationFrame (when available) but doesn't require a code refactor to explicitly support it.

[ghost]

A few feedbacks: adding this really slows down the scrollability at least on Android devices.

After a bit of investigations, I :

1. Used simple variables and passed the check as argument: var requestAnimFrame = function( jsRequestAnimFrame ) { if ( !jsRequestAnimFrame ) { return ... } else { return ... } }( window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame || window.... ); and of course included it in the scrollability scope ( like Tin patch )

2. Plus inside requestAnimFrame and requestInterval, replace respectively window.setTimeout by setTimeout, and window.setInterval by setInterval.

It looks to works as it used to be, a little bit better on Android ( maybe because of 1000 / 16 instead of 0 as period ? ) Actually nobody mentions it's not supported on iOS, neither on Android at the moment. *

• Looks promising on the press release from March... or some chrome / other webkit upcoming releases...
• At the time of writing, tested with iOS 4.3.X and Android 2.1 - and since the time of scrollability was released, it hasn't changed so much: no support on mobile webkit-based browser for requestAnimationStuff

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[Tin]

We are facing serious performance issue in android too, especially the honeycomb on tablet. We need a big breakthrough, but seems we are blocked by lacking of hardware acceleration for css3 transformation.

[chrisdrackett]

my solution is to not support android ;)