# benbarnett/jquery-animate-enhanced

Extend $.animate() to detect CSS transitions for Webkit, Mozilla, IE>=10 and Opera and convert animations automatically.

Repository: https://github.com/benbarnett/jquery-animate-enhanced
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jquery-animate-enhanced
Homepage: http://playground.benbarnett.net/jquery-animate-enhanced/
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2019-10-05T07:21:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5845, "days_push": 2524, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1375, forks 194 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:33.153239+00:00)

## What it is
A jQuery plugin that extends $.animate() to automatically detect and use CSS3 transitions (translate/translate3d) in browsers that support them, with silent degradation to standard DOM animation elsewhere. It is a lightweight drop-in enhancement supporting left, top, opacity, width, and height animations.

## Use cases
- speed up jquery animations with css3 transitions
- hardware-accelerate left/top animations in jquery
- animate elements without writing browser detection code
- use translate3d for smoother mobile safari animations
- progressively enhance existing jquery animate calls

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy jQuery codebase that needs faster animations without refactoring
- targeting old browsers (IE6+) while still benefiting from CSS3 transitions where available

## When to avoid
- starting a new modern project - use CSS transitions/animations or modern animation libraries like GSAP directly
- your project uses jQuery 1.9+ or modern frameworks - the plugin is unmaintained since ~2019 and tested only up to jQuery 1.8

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: abandoned
- function: animation, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, css3-transitions, hardware-acceleration, drop-in-enhancement, legacy-browsers, javascript

## Member repositories
- benbarnett/jquery-animate-enhanced (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:33.153239+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:40:33.647924+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/benbarnett/jquery-animate-enhanced (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:33.153239+00:00, sha 66e8aac42014)
  - homepage: http://playground.benbarnett.net/jquery-animate-enhanced/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:56:45.685143+00:00, sha e6284718aadb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.