Is there any advantage to using CSS animations over jQuery animations? (performance, or otherwise)

Question

I mean, CSS animations are cool, but CSS3 compliance is annoyingly un-standard. but, ignoring all the issues with browsers and their inability to be up-to-date with the late

Answer 1

CSS animations have the benefit of potentially being hardware accelerated. Here's a demo of Scripty2 (I know, it's not jQuery - but same principles) that demonstrates this very well.

http://scripty2.com/hardware-acceleration/