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Re: [CSSOM] Revisiting transforms and getBoundingClientRect()

From: John J Barton <johnjbarton@johnjbarton.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:12:41 -0700
Message-ID: <CAFAtnWxdmekM3uOAnHpEB-MLQgUM8pbzw1ekFtR42bEsTnxutw@mail.gmail.com>
To: robert@ocallahan.org
Cc: Erik Arvidsson <arv@chromium.org>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Andrew Dupont <w3@andrewdupont.net>, www-style@w3.org
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Erik Arvidsson <arv@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> Another thing that keeps coming up is to do these things async
>> (preferably with deferred/promises) so that we do not trigger
>> unexpected layouts. It is not uncommon for code to query the rect just
>> to set some style property. If multiple code snippets do this
>> consecutively then we get multiple layouts which lead to very slow
>> applications.
>
> If the layout changes between requesting the promise and forcing its
> evaluation, what should the result be? That sounds hard to spec and likely
> to make applications unreliable.
>
> I've always assume applications and libraries should be designed to avoid
> excessive layout flushing. What makes that hard?

Lack of information and explicit signals on when layout has been triggered.

jjb

>
> Rob
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