Re: [css3-animations] display:none, visibility:hidden and animations

Hi Sylvain,

If a parent's style goes to 'none', I would expect that nested animation
would stop and no longer be animated by the browser.
Once the parent goes to non-'none', the children's animation should start
over.

Rik

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>wrote:

>
> [Boris Zbarsky:]
> >
> > On 9/29/11 5:12 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> > > I don't believe there are any issues.  This is clearly the correct
> > > model.  There is no reason whatsoever for 'display' to have an effect
> > > on what animations run.
> >
> > That requires UAs to always compute the value of animation properties on
> > all elements, including in display:none subtrees.
> >
> > In particular, this requires performing selector matching and so forth on
> > those elements, which is something UAs commonly optimize out now.
> >
> > I don't believe that this is desirable.  Unless I'm missing something
> > here?
> >
> > -Boris
> I would agree that from an implementation standpoint, this is not optimal.
> We should start with what behavior makes sense for authors, though. What do
> you want display:none to do to an element's animation, or one running on a
> child
> of that element ? Should it pause the animation ? Stop it ? Same question
> for
> visibility:hidden.
>