Why are slow jQuery animations choppy?
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 an animation that I want to have a long duration but still be smooth. I've created this jsfiddle to demonstrate the issue: http://jsfiddle.net/93Bqx/ I'm trying to make an element slowly move to another position over time. But the animation is very choppy. Basically, it boils down to something like this: $elem.animate({ left: x, top: y }, someLargeNumber); I'm wondering if the problem is that the animation is so slow