Re: [web-animations] Web Animations minutes, 2 Oct 2014

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Shane Stephens <shans@google.com> wrote:
> I think that having an 'always on' animation is pretty useful.
>
> It might be enough just to have an 'always on from the start of the
> document's timeline' animation, but an author could pretty easily end up
> accidentally going outside that bound when manipulating currentTime and
> playbackRate on a player. Having an animation guaranteed to be running no
> matter what seems like a pretty basic primitive.
>
> If we accept the need for this primitive, then 'delay = -Infinity;
> iterations = Infinity' seems like a pretty straightforward way to represent
> it. A little bit of extra specification cost is worth it if the result is
> intuitive to developers.

That's reasonable.  So you're okay with .currentIteration being
permanently Infinity for such animations?

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 7 October 2014 21:56:46 UTC