Re: [css-animations] Multiple identifiers per @keyframes rule

• From: Lea Verou <lea@verou.me>
• Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:05:27 -0400
• To: Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com>
• Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <DEBABDC3-D14F-48B7-97C9-CB0A5A4FCE1E@verou.me>

> On Oct 20, 2015, at 19:58, Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Interesting use case. Yes it seems like a valid usage, but allowing
> multiple identifiers per @kerframes rule doesn't seem to make much
> sense otherwise.
> 
> Given the rule is that animation occurs when `animation-name` is
> overridden, what about extending `animation-name` to accept an
> optional extra component after each animation name, which doesn't have
> meaning itself, just for triggering the overriding?
> 
> - Xidorn

I would argue that this is even more hacky. At least allowing aliases on @keyframes is a feature, even though it’s intended to help with a hack and could aid readability in other use cases too (e.g. reusing an animation for different purposes could now use different names). Allowing garbage in animation-name just to trigger changes is very, very conspicuously a hack :P

~Lea

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