- From: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 05:29:18 +0000
- To: Brian Birtles <bbirtles@mozilla.com>
- CC: Michael Mullany <michael@sencha.com>, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com>, "Shane Stephens" <shans@google.com>, Douglas Stockwell <dstockwell@google.com>, "public-fx@w3.org" <public-fx@w3.org>, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>, Paul Irish <paulirish@google.com>
On Apr 17, 2014, at 2:42 AM, Brian Birtles <bbirtles@mozilla.com> wrote: > (2014/04/17 8:39), Michael Mullany wrote: >> Tab, >> >> I think this is a JavaScript / CSS cultural divide. I have rarely seen >> ms used in CSS questions on StackOverflow or in almost any Codepen >> example. On the other hand, I think JavaScript folks think in ms. > > I think you're right. Paul's survey and GitHub search seem to confirm this pattern. > > My inclination at the moment is to make raw numbers in Web Animations represent ms. > > I thought we could possibly make the TimingInput dictionary's 'duration' member be a union type "(DOMString or double)" but they're not distinguishable right? > > Suppose we find a way to allow "2s", "2000ms" or 2000 (=milliseconds) for "duration", we'd have to apply the same treatment to "delay", "endDelay", and "iterationStart". And we'd have to also do the same for the Timing interface later and define behavior so that when setting animation.timing.duration = "2s" we automatically convert it to 2000 (so that whenever you *read* animation.timing.duration you get the same thing and didn't have to test its type). And then there's AnimationPlayer too. It's possible, but it seems preferable if we can just settle on seconds or milliseconds. > > I'm not sure how to resolve this but I think Shane has some ideas for polling. I always use seconds in CSS and SVG but naturally ms in JS because of the same reasons mentioned in other comments before. I agree that the audience for WebAnimations is JavaScript developers. I wouldn’t be surprised if most JS developers expect ms. Greetings, Dirk > >> I personally doubt that many CSS folks will adopt Web Animations (it has >> always seemed to me a very complicated spec to understand), so perhaps >> ms makes sense for the audience that will use it. > > It's a massive spec. I think we'll end up carving out a subset as level 1. It would help if we can get tool support to achieve this. > > Best regards, > > Brian >
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