Re: Need for extended cubic-beziers

I can vouch for the need, as I've heard it requested and complained about
by just such people repeatedly. However, I myself haven't devised an
implementation for such beziers inside a library. That is beyond my ken.

I wonder if anyone here has that power?



On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 1:28 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 2015-08-11 13:14 -0700, Rachel Nabors wrote:
> > So in my travels around the web animation community, I've noticed more
> than
> > one lamentation that the cubic-bezier timing function doesn't take more
> > than two coordinates, leaving bounces and other such animations woefully
> > beyond the reach of most CSS animators.
> >
> > Such bounces are a much-touted feature of JS animation libraries like
> > GreenSock and were easily available in Flash back in the day.
> >
> > I'm new here, so I don't know if this has been discussed before. Is
> there a
> > reason *not* to support advanced curves?
>
> I'm not aware of a reason beyond not having a concrete proposal for
> what to add (though there might be details to discuss with a
> concrete proposal).
>
> Ideally such a proposal would come from somebody familiar with which
> parts of these JS animation libraries or Flash features are popular
> or important.  Backing a proposal with existing demand for its usage
> makes it a stronger proposal.
>
> -David
>
>
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