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by Zikes 4340 days ago
The animations are CSS powered, which takes advantage of GPU optimizations better than JS animations. If the browser does not support the necessary CSS animations then jQuery animations will be used.

jQuery is still necessary for the logic behind implementing an accordion, but the "heavy lifting" is done in CSS where possible.
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freshyill 4339 days ago
Seeing an animation like this seems like such a trivial thing.

It's like rounded corners. Is anybody wasting effort with background images or javascript to make rounded corners for old browsers? I can't imagine they are. If they are, they need to have the graceful degradation talk with their boss/client.

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mathijs 4340 days ago
Ah, thanks, that makes sense.
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