I'm new to animation, but I have recently created an animation using setTimeout. The FPS was too low, so I found a solution to use requestAnimationFrame, described in this link. So far, my code is...

I found 2 sources where it kind of says that React is using requestAnimationFrame On this blog post about Om, a ClojureScript framework on top of React. Also on the comments of this SO answer. I'...

Paul Irish has a post called requestAnimationFrame for Smart Animating. Now Paul is a smart guy - and I'm just trying to understand the scope of the application of this idea. He says to do HTML5 ...

I made a quick simple solution in JSFiddle, for better and faster explaining: var Canvas = document.getElementById("canvas"); var ctx = Canvas.getContext("2d"); var startAngle = (2*Math.PI); var ...

(I need a process.nextTick equivalent on browser.) I'm trying to get the most out of javascript performance so I made a simple counter ... In a second I make continuous calls to a function that j...

Some browsers support requestAnimationFrame, so why not use it? After all, it's been supported since Google Chrome 10. Despite that, jQuery does not seem to be using it. I've found a bug report abo...

I'm trying to figure out if d3's default animations use requestAnimationFrame for the callback already or if I need to do it myself. For example, I have defined a custom tween that calls a redraw f...

So, I am doing an animation (Not on a website/webpage!), that uses Javascript. For the animation, I use requestAnimationFrame instead of setInterval, as setInterval did not work well enough for wha...

What's the equivalent of the following in plain JS? $(window).scroll(function() { }); I'm also looking to animate scroll, e.g.: $('html, body').animate({scrollTop:1750}, 'slow'); Should I be u...

So I've been a good net citizen, using feature detection to see whether the browser supports requestAnimationFrame and only fall back to a setTimeout-based solution otherwise (something around the ...

I've noticed that whenever I dock the browser window or switch tabs requestAnimationFrame stops being called (which I expect to happen). Is there a way to detect when this stop occurs? Reason is,...

I use Box2D with WebGL. Box2D demands a constant frame rate (time steps for it's "world" updates). function update(time) {//update of box2d world world.Step( 1/60 // 1 / frame-rate , 3 //veloci...

I want to change the background color of in-viewport elements (using overflow: scroll) So here was my first attempt: http://jsfiddle.net/2YeZG/ As you see, there is a brief flicker of the previou...

I'm trying to build a parallax site, which will move few elements while scrolling the site. But instead of using a scroll event listener I'm using requestAnimationFrame, after reading this post by ...

I did some tests on Chrome and requestAnimationFrame yielded 61 fps while setTimeOut( callback, 0 ), yielded 233 fps. If one would like to have more than 61 fps (which I'm not sure what for) but wo...

I'm wondering if I should switch my game over to requestAnimationFrame. If there even is still a reason to do so anymore, as I've read that setTimeout() now also pauses when you switch tabs in the ...

I am just trying to understand why the hell window.requestAnimationFrame is accepting the second parameter as an element, what is the reason behind that? I am curious to know the underlying execu...