Re: Request for Comments: Proposal for Touch-Based Animation Scrubbing

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:47 AM, François REMY
<francois.remy.dev@outlook.com> wrote:
> |  From: Tobie Langel
>
> |  Currently, the lack of events on which to prefetch and append new content
> |  while scrolling makes it impossible to implement infinite scrolling
> |  without re-implementing everything in JavaScript. Other UI refinements
> |  (pull to refresh, etc.) suffer from similar issues. Re-implementing
> |  scrolling in JavaScript prevents the browsers from carrying adequate perf
> |  optimization, yields sub-optimal experiences for the users and is
> |  extremely costly in engineering resources.
>
> Unfortunately, this proposal is not aimed at all at solving the 'normal'
> scrolling performance, but rather at solving a popular hack around scrolling
> where you want to run 'scrolling animations' (for example a cartoon bullet
> enters the page from the left as you scroll further).

Francois is correct.  This proposal does *not* solve "infinite
scrolling".  I have something else in the pipeline for that.  ^_^

~TJ