requestAnimationFrame()

Offload animation repainting to browser for optimized performance. You should call this method whenever you're ready to update your animation onscreen. This will request that your animation function be called before the browser performs the next repaint.

Comments

Safari lacks support for the DOMHightResTimeStamp callback parameter.

Documentation

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window/requestAnimationFrame

Specification

Established standard

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

Chrome for desktop release 24
Opera release 15
Opera for Android release 15

Consensus & Standardization

After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.

Firefox: Shipped
Edge: Shipped
Safari: Shipped
Web Developers: Positive

Owner

jamesr@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-14