I can appreciate the advantages in terms of portability of something like this, but it's sort of funny watching trivial animations choke on a desktop with a bee

I can appreciate the advantages in terms of portability of something like this, but it's sort of funny watching trivial animations choke on a desktop with a beefy discrete graphics card in 2015. Maybe that's just Chrome on Ubuntu, though. I guess you could put everything in a webgl canvas? Otherwise I guess we'd either need to build DOM layout engines better optimized for on-line layout updates or make them more parallelizable?