Does jQuery animate use css3 transitions on modern browsers?

Question

I am taking about version 1.8+.

Since css transitions are hardware accelerated, I was wondering if behind the scenes jQuery's animate function relied on css3 transitions (for modern browsers).

I didn't see any mention of this on animate docs http://api.jquery.com/animate/

Answer 1

No. It rapidly changes the value of inline style attributes, step-by-step, to give the impression of animation.