Re: Proposal: will-animate property

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Ali Juma <ajuma@chromium.org> wrote:

> To see why it would helpful for some will-animate values other than "auto"
> to not create a stacking context, consider the following example:
> http://jsfiddle.net/6rUyf/
>
> There's a list of items and a pop-up menu attached to one of them (more
> generally, there might be pop-ups associated with each item). Say the
> author would like be able to animate the items' positions, and also wants
> the pop-up to move with its parent item and stay above the other items. In
> this case, transform animations cannot be used, since applying transforms
> to the items will turn them into stacking contexts, causing the pop-up to
> pop underneath other items. Instead, top/left animations need to be used.
> But there's still value in buffering/layerizing the items and the pop-up to
> avoid re-rasterizing. The translateZ hack cannot be used (for the same
> reason that transform animations cannot be), so the current hacky way to
> achieve this (that is, to layerize without creating a stacking context) in
> Blink is to use "-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden". For the same reasons
> that "will-animate: transform" is preferable to "translateZ(0)", using
> "will-animate: left" (or "will-animate: top") would be preferable to
> "-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden" (and the analogous hacks in other
> implementations), but for this to happen we'd need "will-animate: left" to
> not create a stacking context.
>

OK, we can make will-animate:foo induce a stacking context only if foo
does, but then I don't know how to fix the future-proofing problem. Maybe
it isn't a big problem and we don't need to fix it.

Rob
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