Why are slow jQuery animations choppy?

Question

I\'m having a hard time googling this issue because most of the things I can find are about animations that are supposed to be fast but are acting slow. My question is regarding

Answer 1

I guess it's the inevitable bargain with doing animation programmatically. Maybe try a framework specialized in animation like:

http://www.greensock.com/gsap-js/

but adapting the animation to CSS would be best.