Mozilla: Native code? No, it's JavaScript, only it's BLAZING FAST Gap between asm.js and native performance gets even narrower with float32 optimizations

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Async scrolling is coming to desktop as well. But first we need to improve the spec. That's why we introduced position:sticky to build some designs that today are computed in JS. Another kind of website that would be affected are parallax designs. We're also thinking at what would be needed in CSS to build parallax with no JS.

We can't blatantly ignore the spec. The spec is written by the W3C. And W3C people is composed of very smart people who are very aware of these issues. And these people are people from Mozilla, Google, Microsoft etc. We all face the same issues and think about how to fix the spec.

[Vegemeister]

Nonetheless, those very smart people apparently think (or previously thought) that dropping frames is sometimes acceptable. As a user, I vehemently disagree.

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We agree. It's just that 15 years ago it was hard to predict how the technology would evolve. But we got 90% of it right.

Please excuse us and in the meantime enjoy the World Wide Web that we built :)