- From: Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:05:03 +1300
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Philip J?genstedt <philipj at opera.com>wrote: > We've considered firing it for each frame, but there is one problem. If > people expect that it fires once per frame they will probably write scripts > which do frame-based animations by moving things n pixels per frame or > similar. Some animations are just easier to do this way, so there's no > reason to think that people won't do it. This will break horribly if a > browser is ever forced to drop a frame, which is going to happen on slower > machines. In balance this may or may not be a risk worth taking. > That's possible, but we haven't noticed authors doing that yet. Rob -- "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah 53:5-6] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20091106/a565a321/attachment.htm>
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