Using Material design always feels so sluggish. Is it the shadows? Can someone with more CSS knowledge speculate about what's causing the high latency?
Last time I paid attention drop shadows were extremely expensive to render, and using too many of them would severely reduce the framerate when scrolling and animating elements. I stopped using them partly because of that, and partly because I find them garish anyway and I haven't found a situation where they improved usability more than just using slightly different colors for foreground and background. I know material design uses them to indicate z-level and to differentiate UI elements from content, I just don't think it's the only way to do so.
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Using Material design always feels so sluggish. Is it the shadows? Can someone with more CSS knowledge speculate about what's causing the high latency?
It's the shadows and the unnecessary animations for every single interaction.
Last time I paid attention drop shadows were extremely expensive to render, and using too many of them would severely reduce the framerate when scrolling and animating elements. I stopped using them partly because of that, and partly because I find them garish anyway and I haven't found a situation where they improved usability more than just using slightly different colors for foreground and background. I know material design uses them to indicate z-level and to differentiate UI elements from content, I just don't think it's the only way to do so.