RE: [css-variables] are variables animatable?

The reason custom properties are not animated is that it would result in strange results:

    #element { var-x: 0px; top: get(var-x); transition: var-x 1s, top 1s; }
    #element:hover { var-x: 10px; }

If var-x was animated, top changes of value constantly so the actual transition duration on top would be 2s, right? <do not forget variable references are resolved before computed time>

Also, you don't know the type of the value so it would only work for values of the same unit.


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> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 16:38:24 +0800
> From: cam@mcc.id.au
> To: www-style@w3.org
> Subject: [css-variables] are variables animatable?
>
> There is no "Animatable" line in the property declaration box for var-*
> and no mention of animation in the spec. My guess is that the intention
> is for them not to be animatable, since there is no discussion about
> what animatable variables would actually mean.
>

Received on Monday, 20 May 2013 08:50:34 UTC