Re: [css3-animations] Editability of CSS 3 Animations

Regardless of nice editor ui, I like what jon and francois are saying if I
have to do it by hand.
On Feb 5, 2012 7:10 AM, "Simon Fraser" <smfr@me.com> wrote:

> On Feb 3, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Daniel Glazman
> > <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote:
> >> Le 03/02/12 15:54, Tab Atkins Jr. a écrit :
> >>> I meant make up some reasonable defaults *for the purpose of
> >>> previewing*.  You even suggest that perhaps 1s would be a good default
> >>> duration.  Just use that in your preview to show the general effects
> >>> of the keyframes while people are editting them.
> >>
> >> You understand that from a UX point of view, having 0s animations
> >> look like 1s animations is a catastrophe ?
> >>
> >> Similarly, all animations that will run with an animation-delay
> >> that is not set in the rule setting animation-name
> >> will appear starting at 0s... Urgh.
> >>
> >> I perfectly understand the compromise you're proposing, and I am
> >> saying this compromise is here to save a technical change at the
> >> cost of editability and UX. Given the importance of CSS 3 Animations,
> >> I think editability is a too major feature to go that way.
> >>
> >> I'd love to hear from Apple people here.
> >
> > You're in charge of the editor.  You can, *when people are editting
> > the 'animation' property*, preview the actual duration/delay/etc
> > they're using at that point, and even call out a 0s duration as "you
> > probably didn't mean to do that".  Just use the defaults when you're
> > previewing the @keyframes rule specifically.
> >
> > Even if you bake default durations into the @keyframes rule, people
> > can change it at the point of use.  It seems like the same argument
> > for why this is bad would apply.
>
> I agree with Tab. It seems like your editor is trying to impose a timeline
> structure on something that doesn't have one. If your tool is
> all-encompassing
> (meaning that the author uses it to control what JS runs when, and
> therefore
> when the "dynamic" style gets applied), then the problem goes away because
> you know when the animation is going to run.
>
> If you replace animation-* with some other property with a shorthand, like
> border-*,
> why is the problem different?
>
> Simon
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