On: Why "variables" in CSS are harmful

[sysop073]

I tried to read the essay but as soon as I saw the page my eyes started burning

[Hexstream → sysop073]

Also, scrolling this page is surprisingly CPU-intensive. At least on Firefox 2 Ubuntu.

[sysop073 → Hexstream]

I had that problem too, I assumed it was my computer's fault. Anybody know what the page is doing that makes scrolling suffer so badly? Is it just the transparency like pistoriusp mentioned? It was bad on Firefox 2 on Gentoo; it seems to be fine on Firefox 3 on Windows XP

[pistoriusp → Hexstream]

When I used FreeBSD I had a lot of lag when pages had transparency, probably because Xorg wasn't accelerated.