That isn't even relatively close to being the same animation.

If that doesn't matter, who not just (paraphrasing):

  <blink>...</blink>

I opened this and saw the loading spinner and sat there wondering why it was taking so long to load the spinner :/

I like your solution.

Where do you define the 'gap' in the cicle? I played around with the jsFiddle and could figure it out (still learning CSS wizardy)