[dev-servo] CSS Houdini meeting report

2015-02-19 Thread Simon Sapin
Last week I was in Sydney for the first face to face meeting of “CSS Houdini”, a new joint task force of W3C’s CSS Working Group and Technical Architecture Group. The goal is to “explain the magic” of CSS, make it extensible by providing low-level primitives that can be built upon to add new

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-19 Thread James Long
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:02 PM, James Long longs...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I think what we *really* need to be working on is making all of the DOM APIs asynchronous. That's what Servo needs anyway.

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-19 Thread James Long
I'm not heavily involved in platform work, so take my input as a somewhat naïve outsider. I've been tracking this kind of stuff very closely, especially after I got to play with react native. The place where this is most important is mobile, and I don't think #2 is going to cut it. It's not just

[dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-19 Thread Robert O'Callahan
Last week in Sydney I spent a lot of time talking to Chrome devs about different approaches for 60fps effects in Web pages. There are three different kinds of approaches being discussed (so far): 1) Apple's animation-timeline proposal, which lets CSS animations use scroll position as an input

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-19 Thread James Long
Sorry, I may have missed the last part of your email where you say that you could provide touch positions as input too. This would be neat research and I'd like to see more details. Note however that people in the native app world believe that it's very important that whatever applies the