Example
<html>
<body>
<h1>This will fade in at 60 frames per second (or as close to possible as your hardware allows)</h1>
<script>
// Fade in over 2000 ms = 2 seconds.
var FADE_DURATION = 2.0 * 1000;
// -1 is simply a flag to indicate if we are rendering the very 1st frame
var startTime=-1.0;
// Function to render current frame (whatever frame that may be)
function render(currTime) {
var head1 = document.getElementsByTagName('h1')[0];
// How opaque should head1 be? Its fade started at currTime=0.
// Over FADE_DURATION ms, opacity goes from 0 to 1
var opacity = (currTime/FADE_DURATION);
head1.style.opacity = opacity;
}
// Function to
function eachFrame() {
// Time that animation has been running (in ms)
// Uncomment the console.log function to view how quickly
// the timeRunning updates its value (may affect performance)
var timeRunning = (new Date()).getTime() - startTime;
//console.log('var timeRunning = '+timeRunning+'ms');
if (startTime < 0) {
// This branch: executes for the first frame only.
// it sets the startTime, then renders at currTime = 0.0
startTime = (new Date()).getTime();
render(0.0);
} else if (timeRunning < FADE_DURATION) {
// This branch: renders every frame, other than the 1st frame,
// with the new timeRunning value.
render(timeRunning);
} else {
return;
}
// Now we're done rendering one frame.
// So we make a request to the browser to execute the next
// animation frame, and the browser optimizes the rest.
// This happens very rapidly, as you can see in the console.log();
window.requestAnimationFrame(eachFrame);
};
// start the animation
window.requestAnimationFrame(eachFrame);
</script>
</body>
</html>
