Re: Units of time in Web Animations [was: Intent to Ship: Element.animate]

Hi :)


2014-04-17 0:30 GMT+02:00 Shane Stephens <shans@google.com>:

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Domenic Denicola <
> domenic@domenicdenicola.com> wrote:
>
>>  Regardless of spec examples, all of the real-world CSS transition and
>> animation code I've seen uses the ms unit, not the s one. I don't think CSS
>> provides any guidance here.
>>
>
> The first three sites I found transitions on use seconds:
> google.com uses 0.1s, 0.5s (not 100ms, 500ms).
> twitter.com uses 0.3s (not 300ms)
> www.smh.com.au uses 0.4s, 0.1s (not 400ms, 100ms)
>

This is statistically inaccurate. There are millions of web sites out
there. How those three could be representative of all the rest?


> Literally the first 3 transitions tutorials I found use seconds:
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Using_CSS_transitions
> http://css3.bradshawenterprises.com/transitions/
> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/tutorials/css_transitions
>

Which does not presume of what users are truly doing. CSS support both
second and millisecond. If both are supported, it's because both are used.


> Do you have counter-examples?
>

Unfortunately, no time now to provide you a list, but basically, all the
web sites my company is working on (we prefer using milliseconds... but I
do not assume our behavior is the general one)

It would be great if you could provide more accurate statistics.

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Received on Wednesday, 16 April 2014 22:41:34 UTC