Re: Proposal: will-animate property

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:

> On Dec 2, 2013, at 9:33 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
> wrote:
>
> > That's true for a property like 'buffered-rendering' that appears to
> force a particular implementation. But 'will-animate' is the right level of
> abstraction to give the implementation the information it needs to make the
> right decision. If the decision is "we don't need to do anything special to
> handle animation of this property", that's fine.
>
> I think you are missing the important part of the proposal (with your
> addition). It is not a hint anymore. It changes behavior and limits the
> implementation on the decision if it follows the hint or doesn’t.


Creating a stacking context can't be a problem for any implementation: many
properties already do it, and we keep adding more to that list. That is the
only correctness-affecting behavior change.

Without the creation of a stacking context, I would be a bit less
> concerned, even though I still fear that it can not be used in an
> interoperable way. Implementations *are* different. The proposal would
> require a certain way of implementation so that all user agents can benefit
> of it in the same way which is simply not the case today.


Are you saying that "will-animate:transform" is somehow worse than using
"transform:translateZ(1px)" to indicate the same thing, i.e. what people do
today?

This can be seen on noticeable differences on scrolling, one reason why
> this property was suggested in the first place. You will end up with “Works
> best on Chrome” or “works best on iPad” on web sites very quickly depending
> where the property is more attractive for authors which again probably
> depends on market share (or where the authors makes most money). I am
> pretty opposed to a property that deliberately causes a wider diversity.
> This is not the task of CSS.
>

Currently authors are taught specific hacks to trigger browser heuristics
to get the performance characteristics they need. I think will-animate will
improve that situation, and I fail to see how it could hurt.

It might help if you presented more specific scenarios that you're
concerned about.

Rob
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