Re: [css3-transitions] [css3-animations] API for testing transitions and animations from Boris Zbarsky on 2012-02-14 (public-css-testsuite@w3.org from February 2012)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:38:10 -0500
To: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>
CC: public-css-testsuite@w3.org
Message-ID: <4F3AB822.7050705@mit.edu>

On 2/14/12 2:32 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Boris Zbarsky<bzbarsky@mit.edu>  wrote:
>> Which timer?  The setTimeout timer, or the animation one?
>
> Both.

The setTimeout timer is almost certainly not very precise in practice. 
Especially if you want short timeouts.

The animation timer may be better, as long as you keep in mind that it 
only fires at 60Hz or so.

> Well, ideally, yes.  But to verify that the user is actually seeing
> what they're supposed to, as opposed to just computed values being
> correct, you need some type of reftest.

Sure.  I'm saying there's a place for both sorts of test.

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 14 February 2012 19:38:36 UTC