CSS animation perf statistics

At the TXJS conference over the weekend, several talks were dedicated to the 
topic of using CSS transitions and animations to replace the more clunky 
(and often less performant) JavaScript animation approaches of many 
"effects" done on web pages.

But, noted was that not all systems benefit from this approach (namely, 
those which do not have the ability to hardware accelerate such things). The 
observation is that libraries like Scripty2 (and others) which try to detect 
which (best) animation method(s) to use could benefit from an interface in 
the content-JavaScript which allows them to detect such things:

    - are CSS transitions/animations hardware accelerated
    - what is the (avg/min/max) framerate of the transitions/animations on 
the page (the currently executing one and/or the most recently executed one)
    - the CPU usage stats for the current or previous animation(s)
    - etc

The benefit for this type of information is that a library author can 
determine from such stats that a device will or won't (likely) benefit from 
offloading an animation to CSS as opposed to JavaScript (setInterval() or 
requestAnimationFrame, etc).

I just wanted to ask if such data is already exposed, or planned to be 
exposed, in any interface, or if it's agreed that this type of data would be 
useful and relevant to expose to the JavaScript layer?

--Kyle

Received on Monday, 13 June 2011 13:37:30 UTC