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

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Sylvain Galineau
<sylvaing@microsoft.com> wrote:
> This follows up on a thread this past July [1] that never reached a clear conclusion as we ended up discussing ways of synchronizing multiple animations since display:none can be used for that purpose in Webkit.
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> One could say that display and animation properties are orthogonal to one another i.e. the latter animates properties, the latter what kind of box an element generates. So animations on a display:none element are run so that querying the animated properties along the way will return the expected values; and the visual result of turning the element back to display != none would reflect the current state of the animation. This would be true for the animated children of a display:none parent, as well as for visibility:hidden elements and their children.
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> This would also be consistent with what would happen if your animation was entirely script-based with no use of CSS3 Animations.
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> Besides the implementation/runtime cost of managing invisible animations, what are the issues with this model ?
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> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Jul/0267.html

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.

~TJ