- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:47:24 -0700
- To: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
I discussed this a bit more with Shane yesterday, and our conclusion is that there really isn't sufficient use-case for caret animations to make it worthwhile to add this kind of thing. We do need to handle the existing common styles - solid, blinking, and maybe fading - but that's it, and it can be done by an explicit property with those behaviors as keywords. Yes, it's possible to set the caret to solid and then use caret-color to recreate blinking in some other style, but we don't think that'll be common in the first place - who needs that level of explicit control over a cursor's blink rate?!? It's probably a good idea to put in an explicit author-level MUST NOT forbidding using caret-color in this way, citing a11y concerns. This means we can just use 'animation' in the normal way when people do want to animate caret-color. ~TJ
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