Does, or will, jQuery ever leverage the performance improvements of CSS3 animations for it’s .animate(), .slideDown(), .fadeIn(), etcetera functions? It would be nice to see it implemented already somewhere or implemented in jQuery itself soon.
Obviously it’s limited to what CSS3 can do, but that’s still a majority of effects.
Check out the jQuery Animate Enhanced project.
I don’t think it wraps
.slideDown()or.fadeIn(), but you can mimic those with.animate().