Re: Ignored Properties Inside a @keyframes block

On Jul 24, 2014, at 11:12 AM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 2014-07-24 17:22 +0000, Sylvain Galineau wrote:
>> On Jul 23, 2014, at 7:32 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In
>>> particular, some time ago we resolved that "non-animatable" properties
>>> should still animate, by just flipping from the start value to the end
>>> value at 50% of the transition's progress.  Nobody implements this
>>> yet, but it's still intended behavior, afaik.
>> 
>> I was looking for this in css-transitions and I couldn't find it so we may
>> have catch-up to do in both specs. I assume animations would do the same 
>> thing for non-animatable properties, though of course the 50% point would 
>> be the mid-point between the two keyframes that update the property. Does 
>> that make sense?
> 
> We agreed to do this for animations and agreed NOT to do it for
> transitions, so the prose should be in animations.

I definitely missed that distinction. Do you recall when that was discussed?
I'd love to go read why we exclude this from transitions; the fact that it'll
do something in animations but nothing in transitions sounds potentially confusing...