Re: when do transitions occur?

On 22/09/2011, at 6:15 AM, L. David Baron wrote:
>> 
>> I think I should remove the entire section on animatable properties. We'll be
>> in a flux state until other CSS specs add the animatable description for each
>> of their properties, but I don't think that's so bad. And definitely better
>> than having an erroneous spec.
> 
> I think it would be better for the transitions spec to define the
> animation rules for all properties ahead of it (i.e., everything in
> 2.1 or in css3 drafts ahead of it) and we should add "Animatable:"
> lines to the property template for everything behind or roughly even
> with transitions.
> 
> The "Animatable" line should link to *how* the property is
> animatable, so the definitions in the transitions spec should be
> easy to link to, but some modules will give their own definitions as
> well.  (In other words, it should probably say things like "no", "as
> <a>integer</a>", "as <a>shadow</a>", etc.)

Good suggestion. I'm not sure when I'll get to doing this, so if
one of the other editors volunteers… many thanks.

Dean