requestAnimationFrame
Video Course on Real-Time HTML5 with Node.jsa poorly named API
it's not only about animation, can be any kind of visual update
"call this function at the most optimal time for a visual update"
on a 60Hz monitor it would be 60fps on a 100Hz monitor it would be 100fps
the MDN documentation is not correct:
> method tells the browser that you wish to perform an animation and requests that the browser call a specified function to update an animation before the next repaint.
because it's not just for animation, you're just queueing for the next repaint
the h5ive api:
var aFrame = h5.animationFrame,
body = document.body,
text, id1, id2, id3;
id1 = aFrame.queue(function(){
// ...
});
id2 =aFrame.queueAfter(function(){
// ...
});
the important feature is queue and queueAfter that let you queue updates after each other so that the browser will not squash them into just one