On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:20 AM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:11 PM, James Long <longs...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Note however that people in the native app world believe that it's >> very important that whatever applies the animations is run on the same >> thread that handles input. Otherwise it's very easy for animations to >> get out-of-sync. > > Does that mean also doing the painting/compositing on the thread that > handles input?
Not necessarily, the important part is that when the user makes a gesture, an animation is updated with the event as input, and the layout or other properties are changed, all on the same thread. It can be actually painted on a separate thread. The state of the render tree just needs to be updated in sync with the user input. As Anne mentioned, when React Native comes out next month I would highly recommend looking deep into it. They have a lot of good reasons for choosing that architecture, and is something we could think about working towards (long-term). I know the team personally and I can get someone here in touch with them. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
