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Ask HN: Better to use Javascript or CSS

4 pointsby dillonover 14 years ago
I have a lot of animations to fulfill on my website, right now I'm doing pure CSS for these animations. Is it better to use CSS or is it better to use Jquery?

3 comments

karlclementover 14 years ago
Hello there,<p>I would have to agree with symmet, you need both. This way if a user doesn't have a recent version of Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari or Opera you can have jQuery to fall back on.<p>-You can use browser detection to conditionally enable jQuery scripts on page load. You can use Javascript/jQuery or a server-side script to detect exactly which browser is loading the page.<p>-You can also check out <a href="http://www.modernizr.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.modernizr.com/</a>. It adds classes to the html element which allow you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet.<p>Let me know if you need any help with that,<p>Good luck!<p>Karl
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symmetover 14 years ago
My approach is to do everything in CSS animations for browsers that support it, and then fall back to jQuery animations for those that don't.<p>CSS animations can take advantage of hardware graphics acceleration and they render very nicely on mobile browsers.<p>So, my answer is: both.
jet3juneover 14 years ago
Both and several other javascript frameworks