Re: transitions vs. animations

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Andrew Fedoniouk
<news@terrainformatica.com> wrote:
> I suspect that 'play-during' is too much.
>
> So far the only useful case for it is page load animations.

It also provides a useful ghetto for 'infinite' play-count animations,
which probably aren't appropriate for play-out animations.  Plus, hey,
no accidental clobbering of your "on-entry" and "constant" animations.

> But for that it
> is enough to have :ready state flag or so.
>
> Therefore
>
>   body:ready { play-in: ....; }
>
> will do exactly what you need.
>
> That :ready state flag is useful in other cases, e.g.
>
>   frame:not(:ready) { background: url( loading-in-progress.gif ); }
>   video:not(:ready) { ..... }
>   img:not(:ready) { ..... }

I agree that :ready would be useful for many things.

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 8 April 2010 05:13:07 UTC