Re: [css-anims] Play-state interaction with delay update

As currently specified, it is possible to seek within a paused Web
Animation - i.e. François' use case is supported.

The (mostly) stateless nature of Timed Items makes this behavior reasonably
easy to support.

Cheers,
    - Shane
On Jun 10, 2013 4:24 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:30 AM, François REMY
> <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com> wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I’ve been thinking about a usecase today where I wanted an animation to
> stop
> > playing while still being able to “seek” inside the animation timeline.
> >
> > I was hoping to use “animation-play-state: paused” and then update the
> value
> > of “animation-delay” to seek into the animation but it doesn’t seem to
> work
> > as I expected (the value of the animations properties are kept frozen
> even
> > after the delay has been changed).
> >
> > If we think in terms of Web Animations, marking the animation as paused
> is
> > equal to setting its playback rate to 0 temporarily, but that should not
> > prevent seek operations to work.
> >
> > What do you think of it? Should that be changed? Or should it just be
> > clarified that changing the animation delay does not cause the animation
> to
> > be recomputed? In all other cases, changing the animation delay 'restart'
> > the animation from scratch (at the animation-delay time). My belief was
> that
> > it would still do the same when paused, except that the state after the
> > restart would be paused.
>
> I find your assumption reasonable, that pausing the animation is
> effectively just setting its playback rate to 0, which means you can
> still seek within it.
>
> However, there may be deeper reasons why the animation is best treated
> as "frozen" instead.  Shane/Brian/etc., any comments?
>
> ~TJ
>
>