title: Non-hardware accelerated opacity
body: <p>In my webb app I need to fade out a smaller element. However, changing opacity of this element causes it to be hardware accelerated which in turn causes massive re-paints of different layers (instead of just one large paint) and I go from 9ms per frame to 20ms per frame.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way I can fade out an item without invoking hardware acceleration in Chrome?</p>