Re: [web-animations] Please, clarify Keyframe.composite default value

2014-11-26 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi Aleksei, On 2014/11/07 20:14, Aleksei Semenov wrote: The default value for 'composite' attribute is specified as null ( http://w3c.github.io/web-animations/#dictdef-keyframe ) However if keyframe input contains attribute 'composite' with the value null, the procedure for converting an

[web-animations] Web Animations minutes, 27 Nov 2014

2014-11-26 Thread Brian Birtles
Web Animations minutes, 27 Nov 2014 Present: Doug, Dirk, Shane, Brian Archived etherpad: https://web-animations.etherpad.mozilla.org/ep/pad/view/ro.92487irtSfEow/rev.28425 Agenda: 1. If you set the startTime on a paused player, what happens? 2. Should the player states be pause-pending and

Re: [web-animations] please, clarify consequences of changing KeyframeEffect.spacing attribute

2014-12-08 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi Aleksei, Thanks for your question. On 2014/12/03 19:38, Aleksei Semenov wrote: According to the specification, http://w3c.github.io/web-animations/#dom-keyframeeffect-getframes spacing keyframes, i.e. attributes computedOffset are calculated in method KeyframeEffect.getFrames(). Yes, but

[web-animations] Web Animations minutes, 18 Dec 2014

2014-12-17 Thread Brian Birtles
Web Animations minutes, 18 Dec 2014 Present: Doug, Shane, Brian Archived etherpad: https://web-animations.etherpad.mozilla.org/ep/pad/view/ro.92487irtSfEow/rev.28977 Agenda: 1. Should we call it timingFunction instead of easing? 2. How are the CSS integration specs coming along? 3. Setting

Re: [web-animations] wrong formatting of scaled active time definition

2014-12-23 Thread Brian Birtles
On 2014/12/17 15:09, Сергей Грехов wrote: Hi All, Format of scaled active time definition section is wrong. Seems there should be ... + start_offset. Please see attached image. Fixed in: https://github.com/w3c/web-animations/commit/545af4361215de519460f46c7a46fa94ed2da9f6 Thanks.

Re: [web-animations] confusing picture for player limiting behavior

2015-02-17 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi Aleksei, Thanks for your mail. On 2015/02/18 18:48, Aleksei Semenov wrote: Hello, everyone. The section '3.5.11. Reaching the end' describes the player behavior, when it reaches its boundaries (either start or finish). The section also contains a picture to demonstrate the effect of

Re: [web-animations] the definition of animation node is weak

2015-02-19 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi Aleksei, On 2015/02/19 21:31, Aleksei Semenov wrote: ... As you can see, the definition of animation node does not define any additional properties, that can be used to distinguish animation nodes from other timing nodes. Furthermore, the role (or function) of animation node is also not

Re: [web-animations] Live update to the model issue

2015-02-19 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi Sergey, On 2015/02/19 20:17, Сергей Грехов wrote: Hi All, Please see the second non-normative section, containing Example 19, in 5.21. Script execution and live updates to the model (https://w3c.github.io/web-animations/#script-execution-and-live-updates-to-the-model). That whole section

[web-animations] Web Animations minutes, 14 Feb 2015

2015-02-13 Thread Brian Birtles
Web Animations minutes, 14 Feb 2015 Present: Doug, Shane, Brian Archived etherpad: https://web-animations.etherpad.mozilla.org/ep/pad/view/ro.92487irtSfEow/rev.32354 Agenda: 1. What is the set of animations returned from getAnimationPlayers()? 2. play(), pause etc. and returning Promises 3.

Re: [web-animations] Please, provide examples for AnimationReadonly usage

2015-04-09 Thread Brian Birtles
On 2015/03/06 19:19, Aleksei Semenov wrote: Hello, everyone. The specification defines two interfaces: AnimationReadonly and Animation. First one is read-only, second is mutable. https://w3c.github.io/web-animations/#the-animation-interfaces The examples in the specification refer only to

Re: [web-animations] Time fraction when iteration duration is zero

2015-04-09 Thread Brian Birtles
On 2015/03/10 21:55, Сергей Грехов wrote: Time fraction calculation algorithm (http://w3c.github.io/web-animations/#calculating-the-time-fraction) contains several steps for the case when iteration duration is zero. It's not obvious to understand the idea of thes algorithm looking at algorithm

Re: [web-animations] does rescheduling create pending task?

2015-04-14 Thread Brian Birtles
On 2015/04/11 15:48, Glen Huang wrote: Hi Brian, Thanks for the explanation. The explanation is perfectly clear, but I'm unable to relate it to the requirement reschedule that task to run as soon as animation is ready. This doesn't seem to have anything to do with delaying the resolving of the

Re: [web-animations] Sampling optimization

2015-04-20 Thread Brian Birtles
On 2015/04/17 14:34, Glen Huang wrote: The difficulty for a JS implementation is to make sure the times reported by the timeline etc. match up with the current frame even when the polyfill is not listening for frames but something else is generating them Yes, that's the difficulty I

[web-animations] Setting the current time in the idle state should transition to paused not running

2015-04-22 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi, If an animation is in the idle state and the current time is set, the currently spec'ed behavior is that the animation will transition to the running state. This is because when the current time is set, none of the conditions that would cause us to update the hold time are fulfilled.[1]

[web-animations] Web Animations minutes, 27 April 2015

2015-04-26 Thread Brian Birtles
Web Animations minutes, 27 April 2015 Present: Doug, Shane, Brian Archived etherpad: https://web-animations.etherpad.mozilla.org/ep/pad/view/ro.92487irtSfEow/rev.33376 Agenda: 1. Property-indexed keyframes 2. Finishing behavior 3. Publishing next WD 4. Negative infinity start delay 5. Add /

[web-animations] Request to publish another WD of Web Animations

2015-06-18 Thread Brian Birtles
Dear all, The editors of the Web Animations specification would like to publish another Working Draft based on the current Editor's Draft.[1] A (rather long) list of changes is included at the end of this mail. We plan to publish on July 2 unless there are any objections. Best regards,

[web-animations] Web Animations minutes, 28 May 2015

2015-06-30 Thread Brian Birtles
[ Sorry for the delay here, I just discovered these notes in the Etherpad and I don't appear to have ever sent them to the list. ] Web Animations minutes, 28 May 2015 Present: Doug, Mike, Shane, Brian Archived etherpad:

Re: [web-animations] Ordering animations based on when they transition from idle

2015-07-01 Thread Brian Birtles
On 2015/06/23 8:57, Shane Stephens wrote: An alternative proposal: CSS animations use sequence number as priority, and are created in tree- and list- order. CSS Animations are still prioritized absolutely above script animations (there are two lists). Changing an animation-name property triggers

Re: [web-animations] Ordering animations based on when they transition from idle

2015-07-02 Thread Brian Birtles
On 2015/07/02 15:10, Shane Stephens wrote: I guess either you're suggesting: a) Updating animation properties triggers a global sequence number rewrite (I hope this isn't the case), or b) Script-animations and CSS animations share the same source of sequence

Re: [web-animations] Bubble animation events to effects

2015-06-28 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi Glen, Sorry, I'm just now catching up on your feedback. On 2015/06/25 20:58, Glen Huang wrote: Also curious about two things: 1. Is zero duration, forwards filled, single keyframe effect valid and fills with the keyframe?; ``` new KeyframeEffect(el, {position: static}, {fill: forwards}) //

Re: [web-animations] Request to publish another WD of Web Animations

2015-07-01 Thread Brian Birtles
On 2015/06/18 16:24, Brian Birtles wrote: Dear all, The editors of the Web Animations specification would like to publish another Working Draft based on the current Editor's Draft.[1] A (rather long) list of changes is included at the end of this mail. We plan to publish on July 2 unless

[web-animations] Web Animations minutes, 25 May 2015

2015-05-25 Thread Brian Birtles
Web Animations minutes, 25 May 2015 Present: Doug, Mike, Shane, Brian Archived etherpad: https://web-animations.etherpad.mozilla.org/ep/pad/view/ro.92487irtSfEow/rev.37544 Agenda: 1. Name property 2. Can we drop AnimationTimeline.play? 3. AnimationTimeline.getAnimations() - sequencing 4. Use

[web-animations] Updating the finish promise in a separate task

2015-06-29 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi, I'm currently speccing finish/cancel events for animations and I think it makes sense to dispatch finish events and also update the finished promise in a separate task. The would mean that something like: var anim = elem.animate({...}, 3000); anim.currentTime = 5000;

Re: [web-animations] Updating the finish promise in a separate task

2015-06-30 Thread Brian Birtles
On 2015/06/30 13:21, Brian Birtles wrote: Hi, I'm currently speccing finish/cancel events for animations and I think it makes sense to dispatch finish events and also update the finished promise in a separate task. I was thinking of applying similar handling to the cancel event including

Re: Need for extended cubic-beziers

2015-08-12 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi Amelia, Thank you for writing this up! As a high-level comment, I like it! We've discussed this feature a few times and there's even an issue in the spec describing something quite similar to this.[1] The main resistance, however, has been to the list of numbers in the syntax. Some were

Re: [web-animations] Ordering animations based on when they transition from idle

2015-07-13 Thread Brian Birtles
On 2015/07/09 11:30, Shane Stephens wrote: I wonder if this proposal is a little bit odd in that we have the following two cases: a) var anim = new CSSAnimation(...); anim.play(); b) elem.style.animation = ...; var anim = elem.getAnimations()[0];

[web-animations] Animation composite order (was: Ordering animations based on when they transition from idle)

2015-07-15 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi, Just following up on this thread, Shane and I discussed this a bit on IRC yesterday and we wonder if we should push ahead with adding the ability to tweak priorities soon-ish. A few points we discussed: * Priority may be confused with CSS prioritization. From here on we will refer to

Re: [web-animations] Ordering animations based on when they transition from idle

2015-07-14 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi Shane, I definitely agree start-time scheduling is problematic. I was just interested in why creation-time ordering is better, particularly as opposed to first-transition-from-idle (let's call it FTFI). The first two points of your mail were about the problems with TFI which I agree are

Re: [web-animations] Request to publish another WD of Web Animations

2015-07-13 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi David, On 2015/07/14 5:58, David Dailey wrote: I'm a bit confused (still). In looking through the document, it looks as though almost everything that looks like traditional animation (in terms of the 15 year old thing that people used to call a W3C Standard -- I finally understand W3C's use

Re: [web-animations] Animation composite order

2015-07-21 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi Kari, On 2015/07/17 15:31, Kari Pihkala wrote: Out of curiosity, do we even need the notion of sequence numbers? Or can animations be regarded as belonging to a list or array structure that can be enumerated and manipulated with familiar push/pop/insert/append APIs? (Apologies if this has

Re: [web-animations] Rethinking document.timeline.getAnimations

2015-10-09 Thread Brian Birtles
On 2015/10/09 7:51, Shane Stephens wrote: Any thoughts? This seems like a really good idea. As an extra point - we don't need to solve custom animations (onsample effects that modify the document) until L2, so we don't need to think about this right now - but if we said that animations

Re: [web-animations] Request to publish another WD of Web Animations

2015-07-07 Thread Brian Birtles
On 2015/07/01 15:59, Brian Birtles wrote: On 2015/06/18 16:24, Brian Birtles wrote: Dear all, The editors of the Web Animations specification would like to publish another Working Draft based on the current Editor's Draft.[1] A (rather long) list of changes is included at the end of this mail

Re: [web-animations] Ordering animations based on when they transition from idle

2015-07-08 Thread Brian Birtles
On 2015/07/09 6:50, Shane Stephens wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 12:21 PM Brian Birtles bbirt...@mozilla.com mailto:bbirt...@mozilla.com wrote: Also, I think we need to clarify when these sequence numbers are updated. Presumably changes to tree order prior to disassociating

Re: [web animations] Global playback rate

2015-09-06 Thread Brian Birtles
On 2015/09/05 4:06, Rachel Nabors wrote: Been seeing a need for a global playback rate for animations. Talking with accessibility experts about older users often needing slower animations makes me think this is something individual sites if not browsers themselves would like to offer user

[web-animations] Should computedTiming return a live object?

2015-09-30 Thread Brian Birtles
(CC-ing public-webapps and www-style since I think this API needs more eyes on it) Hi, Web Animations currently has the following API[1]: interface AnimationEffectReadOnly { readonly attribute AnimationEffectTimingReadOnly timing; readonly attribute ComputedTimingProperties

Re: [web-animations] Should computedTiming return a live object?

2015-10-03 Thread Brian Birtles
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Brian Birtles <bbirt...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> I'd like to change this API, probably to one of the following (listed >> roughly in order of preference).

[web-animations] Rethinking document.timeline.getAnimations

2015-09-25 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi, Summary: * I think we should drop AnimationTimeline.getAnimations() * I think we should add Document.getAnimations() I've been working on implementing the Web Animations model in Gecko and I've made a few observations: 1. document.timeline.getAnimations() is not really useful If you

[web-animations] Do we need to store original timing values when they are invalid?

2015-11-25 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi, (CC'ing www-style since the may be some precedent from CSSOM we can apply here.) Web Animations currently says that if I do the following: var anim = elem.animate({ opacity: 0 }, { duration: 1000, iterations: -1 }); I'll see the following:

[web-animations] Fixing getAnimations()

2015-11-25 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi, Web Animations defines Animatable.getAnimations() (where Animatable is implemented by Element and a forthcoming PseudoElement interface) and I think we've agreed to add Document.getAnimations() as well.[1] I've found two problems with the first method which I'm going to call

Re: [web-animations] Fixing getAnimations()

2015-11-30 Thread Brian Birtles
-- Curator of Web Animation Weekly <http://www.webanimationweekly.com> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 6:40 PM Brian Birtles <bbirt...@mozilla.com <mailto:bbirt...@mozilla.com>> wrote: Hi, Web Animations defi

Re: [css-animations][web-animations] steps() timing function sometimes unintuitive

2016-03-08 Thread Brian Birtles
place, while "equal" doesn't but actually influence the length of each segment, so it's a bit odd. Still, I think it's ok. If we can't find a suitable keyword to stick into steps(), then another option is to mint a completely separate function (e.g. stagger(), quantize() etc.). On M