Re: Proposal: will-animate property

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Ali Juma <ajuma@chromium.org> wrote:
>> I think the current state of the proposal (where the recognized values for
>> will-animate are css properties, "scroll-position", and "volatile") looks
>> good.
>
>
> Excellent! Can we bikeshed the name "volatile" now? :-)
>
> Actually I'd kinda like to bikeshed the whole thing as follows:
> will-change: none | [ scroll-position || contents || <ident> ]
> Rationale: Especially when we start describing updates to DOM contents (aka
> "volatile"), we're not really talking about just animation anymore.
> "will-change" is a bit more generic, but "will-change:transform" still works
> for me.

Agreed.  I like this.

> Furthermore, I think "will-change:contents" is a lot more
> understandable than "will-change:volatile". I don't think we'll ever
> introduce a real "contents" property since it would be too close to
> "content".

Yes, we've avoided doing things with and without an “s” before, and I
expect we'll keep that policy in the future.

~TJ