- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 20:23:24 -0700
- To: "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Cc: Ali Juma <ajuma@chromium.org>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>, Jon Rimmer <jon.rimmer@gmail.com>
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Ali Juma <ajuma@chromium.org> wrote: >> If we don’t want the spinner to finish fading out until the expensive real >> content can be faded in, we’d have to guess how long the expensive content >> will take to paint, and use that guess when determining the duration of the >> spinner fade-out. > > So this is a different use-case to the one Tab originally described? It does sound slightly different (which may mean I misunderstood the original feature request, or just that Ali is pointing out a somewhat different use-case). >> Also, rAF-driven animations would still stall while the expensive content >> is being painted. > > I'm not suggesting a rAF-driven animation, just a rAF-triggered animation. Right, but as soon as the animation triggers, and starts its expensive paint, unrelated rAF timers will hitch as well. ~TJ
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