This excellent Google I/O talk mentions that Chrome for Android moves the CSS animations off of the UI thread, which is, of course, a great idea. Playing around with it, here's what I found: Browser support: Desktop Safari, iOS Safari, Android Chrome. You need to use CSS transforms. Animating regular properties doesn't work. Update: (see comments) confirmed support in IE10. Reported support in Fir
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