Re: Agenda request: Presentation attributes in animation sandwich model

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Brian Birtles <bbirtles@mozilla.com>wrote:

> Having thought about this a little more (and having been persuaded by
> others), I think we can probably get away with the syntax divide.
> Ultimately the rule might look something like "animations applied through
> the style system sit on top of those applied directly to the elements."
> That would still allow a lot of the future situations I have in mind (e.g.
> CSS animations adding to SVG, SVG animations being applied through CSS
> etc.) Even if we were to phrase it as "CSS beats SVG" we could make it more
> generic later.
>
> Also, even with such a rule, I've been persuaded that it will still be
> possible to add more fine-grained control later so that we could have, for
> example, an SVG animation adding on top of a CSS one.
>

By "on top of" to you mean "has priority over"? The former expression is
vague, so please clarify.