title: Performance: CSS3 animations vs. HTML5 Canvas
body: <p>I'm working on a webapp (will <strong>only</strong> be running in Chrome 19+) that is currently built with CSS3 transitions. More specifically, I'm using <a href="http://ricostacruz.com/jquery.transit/">Jquery Transit</a> to fire the CSS3 animations with Jquery itself. The reasoning here was that some of the animations are drawn out for several seconds and jquery <em>animate</em>  wasn't smooth enough, but Transit is a great fix for this. Jquery Transit is working quite well but I'm curious to whether HTML5 Canvas will render things even smoother? And if so, is it worth pursuing, given the fact that I'm using AJAX and percentage-based locations for DIVs currently? If anyone here knows how CSS3 Animations compare to HTML5 Canvas performance in Chrome and would be willing to give their input I would greatly appreciate it!</p>