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Carlos Perez
5,939 PointsCSS Transitions & Transforms or JQuery
I have a somewhat personal question to my fellow students or administrators. To create animations on a Web page, would you guys choose CSS Transitions and Transforms or JQuery to attained a desirable effect? I understand somethings can't be achieved with CSS but what are the trade offs of using one instead of the other?
3 Answers
John Locke
15,479 PointsThere isn't a lot of downside to using CSS3 animations. It's supported back to IE8, and you can use polyfills or graceful degradation for the edge cases that would occur in older browsers.
jQuery is useful for certain things where CSS3 is not practical. You will probably end up using a combination of the two.
Carlos Perez
5,939 PointsThank you John, I kind of figured this was the way to go but I just wanted to double check. I didn't want to make the mistake of doing something out of the norm. Ex. someone saying "Oh you should've used JQuery to do that instead."
Paulo Aguiar
14,120 PointsI agree with John, a combination of the two would be your best bet. Code what you are comfortable with, the end result should be the same :)