I have the following fiddle which distills an issue I am having with a larger project
http://jsfiddle.net/zhaocnus/6N3v8/
in Firefox and Safari, this animation will start having a jittering effect left and right on odd zoom levels (zoom in/out using Ctrl+/- or Cmd+/- on Mac). I believe this is do to sub-pixel rendering issues and the differences between the various browsers round up or down pixels during the zoom calculations, but I have no idea how to fix it and am looking for any suggestions.
I can't use more modern CSS3 animation features as I need to support legacy browsers like IE7.
(code from fiddle below, can't seem to post without it, although not sure it makes sense without CSS and HTML)
// js spritemap animation
// constants
var COUNTER_MAX = 9,
OFFSET = -50,
FRAMERATE = 100;
// variables
var _counter = 0,
_animElm = document.getElementById('animation'),
_supportBgPosX = false;
// functions
function play() {
// update counter
_counter++;
if (_counter > COUNTER_MAX) {
_counter = 0;
}
// show current frame
if (_supportBgPosX) {
_animElm.style.backgroundPositionX = (_counter * OFFSET) + 'px';
} else {
_animElm.style.backgroundPosition = (_counter * OFFSET) + 'px 0';
}
// next frame
setTimeout(play, FRAMERATE);
}
// check if browser support backgroundPositionX
if (_animElm.style.backgroundPositionX != undefined) {
_supportBgPosX = true;
}
// start animation
play();