Re: [webkit-dev] Adding Web Animations to WebCore

2012-11-26 Thread Dean Jackson
Hi Brian, On 23/11/2012, at 12:01 AM, Brian Birtles wrote: >> * At least in its current form, it is overengineered and unusable. An >> animation API should focus on ease of use, not combining every conceivable >> animation concept ever invented. > > I'd genuinely appreciate your help with reg

Re: [webkit-dev] Adding Web Animations to WebCore

2012-11-22 Thread Brian Birtles
(Sorry, the threading is going to be incorrect here. I just joined the list to follow up this thread.) Hi, I wanted to add a few brief comments about the status of Web Animations in response to some of the concerns raised recently. Maciej wrote: > * At least in its current form, it is overeng

Re: [webkit-dev] Adding Web Animations to WebCore

2012-11-08 Thread Elliott Sprehn
I'd also like to object to this as the API is very complicated and doesn't seem incremental or like it fits with existing platform features. Also the naming of things is inconsistent and messy. Why are half the interfaces and properties abbreviated and half of them not? This doesn't feel baked e

Re: [webkit-dev] Adding Web Animations to WebCore

2012-11-08 Thread Dean Jackson
On Nov 8, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Douglas Stockwell wrote: > I wanted to let you know that work has begun on implementing Web Animations > in WebKit. New code for this effort will be landed behind the ENABLE_WEB_ANIM > feature define and a runtime setting. We expect to be turning this define on > f

Re: [webkit-dev] Adding Web Animations to WebCore

2012-11-08 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
I don't think we should support this API in WebKit at this time, because: * At least in its current form, it is overengineered and unusable. An animation API should focus on ease of use, not combining every conceivable animation concept ever invented. * It hasn't even reached FPWD yet so it's n

[webkit-dev] Adding Web Animations to WebCore

2012-11-08 Thread Douglas Stockwell
Hi webkit-dev! I wanted to let you know that work has begun on implementing Web Animations in WebKit. New code for this effort will be landed behind the ENABLE_WEB_ANIM feature define and a runtime setting. We expect to be turning this define on for Chromium buildbots so there will be build and te